Employment Vacancies at Alva Technologies Limited
in Nigeria February 2015
Alva Technologies Limited is a specialized IT consulting firm
with world-class practices in Enterprise Technology Solutions
and Infrastructure Services.
We partner with organizations to select the right technology,
plan, design, build, deploy and manage their IT infrastructure
to enable them realize maximum return on IT (RoIT) investments.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Netbackup Administrator
Job Location Lagos
Job Description
- To be successful in this role, one must possess operational
experience in implementing and maintaining NetBackup solutions
in a large enterprise environment and integrating backups into
the technical strategy for system recovery, as well as the
outlined objectives below:
- Serve as a liaison with other technical
support teams to ensure Backup failures are
handled in a timely manner
- Work with architecture and build/deployment teams to review
and coordinate implementation activities
- Operate hardware/software for the Backup and Recovery
infrastructure – Provide support of all Backup and Recovery
infrastructure
- Develop and / or Review documented procedures related to
Systems Administration of the Backup and recovery environment
- Respond, track and escalate system incidents on all Backup
and Recovery infrastructure – Assist in system patch
deployments, hardware maintenance, application upgrades and
patches
- Monitor and resolve alerts
- Follow change management and configuration management
procedures and guidelines , Perform system directed restores of
data
- Configure and monitor archive retention policies and
prepare audit reports; – Perform offsite tape preparation for
retention and compliance requirements
Key Skills
- Monitoring the daily backups.
- Monitoring the daily restorations.
- Creating New Policies with coordination of DC group.
- Troubleshooting the backup errors and resolving ( if
required log a call with Symantec)
- Daily report for the backup report and filing the same (
physical copy dully signed).
- Checking the backup consistency.
- Providing new ideas for backup.
- Checking the archive backups
- Work as team member for any in house up gradation or
migration
- Management of polis and client details.
- Complete administration of VERITAS netbackup.
- License/client/drive inventory
- Monthly MIS
Experience:
- 1.5 Years+
- Experience in Symantec Netbackup is must.Experience with
Data Domain, Netbackup Appliance is a plus
Job Title: Solaris UNIX System Administrator
Job Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Multiple position for Oracle Sun Solaris 10 and
11 Unix Administrators.
- Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills: 2-5 years
professional systems maintenance experience in a UNIX data
center environment. Installing, configuring and maintaining Sun
servers Troubleshooting Hardware and operating system
related issue ,knowledge of Solaris 10 and 11, RHEL knowledge a
plus
- Be able to install security and other OS patches.
Responsibilities
- Manage enterprise operating systems which include UNIX,
Solaris and Linux
- Setup, install, configure, operate and maintain all Unix
based hardware, software and related infrastructure
- Provide technical support to the Oracle database
administrators and projects team in the initiation, feasibility
and operation phases of all business IT Service provisioning
- Perform technical analysis and ensure operation of business
application platforms conform to best practices, pre-defined
policies and procedures
- Design, select, setup, install and configure UNIX based
systems, software and infrastructure platforms
- Coordinate and collaborate with the networks, business
application, and database administration function to ensure
availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate servers
to meet business demands
- Design, implement and operate Enterprise Storage platform
ensuring the availability and performance aligns to IT service
requirements
- Support the Service Delivery team in the planning of
service continuity / disaster recovery for critical systems and
services; maintain complete systems and data backup
- Use system monitoring tools to proactively manage servers
and storage systems
- Collaborate effectively with peers in IT and other
departments
- Maintains system stability by performing system monitoring
and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting system
hardware, software, networks and operating system management;
designing and running system load/stress testing; escalating
application problems to vendor Implement server upgrades,
maintenance fixes and liaise with major UNIX Original Equipment
Manufacturers to schedule and apply OEM-supplied patches to
optimize performance and maintain system stability.
- Provide 1st and 2nd level support across all IT services
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by Service Delivery
Manager.
Job Title: Education Requirements
- 1st degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or
other related area.
- 2 – 5 years cognate work experience, in a reputable
organization/Institution.
Required Competencies:
- Telecom Industry Experience.
- Data Centre Experience.
- Systems Administration.
- Hardware for Enterprise Systems.
- Knowledge and of UNIX Systems.
- ITIL Service Management.
- Customer Focus/Service Orientation.
- Oral and Written Communication.
- Project Management.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their
applications and CV’s
to: contact@alvatechnologies.net
Deadline: 25th February, 2015