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Job Opportunity at NMB Bank, Specialist DC Servers Infrastructure


Specialist DC Servers Infrastructure  

Job Purpose

To plan, organize and drive the evolution of the strategic storage, backup, replication and recovery program that adapts to rapidly changing business needs, offering key standardized functions across the organization.

Main Responsibilities

  • Coordinate, supervise and provide overall accountability for the daily activities of business support for NAS, DAS and SAN storage  with respective automations (Orchestration)
  • Manages all projects relating to storage including new acquisition and upgrade of existing storage infrastructure.
  • Provide and Implement effective strategies to improve availability, performance, scalability and security of Storage infrastructure.
  • Maintain and analyze metrics to identify harmful trends, capacity forecasting and planning inputs.
  • Design, implement and provide ongoing support of the backup infrastructure.
  • Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
  • Provision/configure required storage & backup for servers.
  • Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the storage and backup infrastructure.
  • Monitor and correct critical backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
  • Install, configure, test and maintain system management tools, SAN and tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
  • Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets
  • Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
  • Maintain storage, security, backup and redundancy strategies.
  • Develop/write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
  • Participate in the design of information and operational support systems, and provide 2nd level support.
  • Ensure technical documentation exists i.e. policies, processes and procedures for all backup and storage infrastructure.
  • Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance and trends. Participate in the design of information and operational support systems, and provide 2nd level support.
  • Ensure technical documentation exists i.e. policies, processes and procedures for all backup and storage infrastructure.
  • Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance and trends.

 Attributes

  • Ability to present technical data in a comprehensive, yet clear manner.
  • Minimum of 6 years’ experience on Backup and Enterprise Storage Manager software/technologies
  • Expert knowledge in SAN storage configuration along with LVM or multipath on the Linux servers
  • Strong working experience in Virtualization products such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V; Backup products such as Veeam and Storage Products such as Dell EMC Unity Storage.
  • Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills in English and Swahili.
  • Strong Planning and organizing skills
  • Project Management skills

Qualifications and Experience

  • At least Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related academic field
  • IT professional certifications in ITIL, Certified Datacenter Management Professional (CDCMP), VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-6-DCV), Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE), Specialist Implementation Engineer Dell EMC Unity Solutions (DCS-IE)
  • Strong experience in storage and backup management


NMB Plc is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 14 working days of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.

“NMB Bank Plc does not charge any fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it”.

Deadline:2019-12-16

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