Senior Manager, Systems Administrator at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

Reporting to the Head ICT Infrastructure, the role holder is responsible for offering leadership to the front line support team for the Bank’s server Infrastructure. The role will include research, testing and ensuring end to end availability, performance, maintenance and capacity of ICT hardware resources across the Bank network is in line with best practice and the Bank’s ICT guidelines

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Professional:

• Professional qualifications in ITIL, RHCE, MCP and other relevant professional qualifications in Server/Hardware administration field would be added advantage.
• Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP

Essential work experience:

• Seven (7) years’ progressive experience in Information Technology with at least (five) 5 years’ experience in infrastructure planning and/or support in an environment with extensive infrastructure deployment withWindows and Linux/Unix environment.
• Experience with Automation/Scripting and Configuration management

Ideal Job Specifications

• Experience with Container/PaaSorchestration/management platforms such asKubernetes will be an added advantage.
• Good working knowledge of high availability environments with server clustering and centralized and distributed storage technologies.
• Office 365 (Exchange Online, One Drive for Business, SharePoint Online) and Active Directory Service.
• Hyper-V/VMware or other virtualization platforms.
• Management of Third party support providers.

Desired work experience:

• HP Server Platforms (rack mount and blades)
• PowerShell scripting
• MS System Center (SCCM, SCOM) Configuration
• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added advantage.

Catapult Bank Core Value Behaviours (Performance Drivers)

• Driven
• Open
• Trusted
• Responsive