Team Lead, Infrastructure Administrator

We are a leading Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) in Nigeria. We pride ourselves in creating a warm environment where everyone can thrive. Day-to-day on-call administration and support of on-premise exchange servers, databases and archiving of mailboxes as set in IT policyNetwork management, monitoring and optimizationPreventive Server and Workstation maintenanceEnsuring all hardware are under support and warranty coverEnsure redundancy is completely built into the system to eliminate service failureReport and prepare strategies to maintain server infrastructure.Management of infrastructure at remote branch officeSourcing & purchasing of hardware/replacement parts and consumablesVendor Management, review of contracts and enforcement of policyManaging Information Technology CMDB and coordinate the distribution of equipmentDatacentre Management & Environmental monitoring University degree in the field of computer science, engineering or information systems.Holds VMWare Certified Professional certificationHolds Network related certification.Any of the following Microsoft certification preferred: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)10+ years of experience managing from client to server-end infrastructure.Proven experience in IT infrastructure strategic planning and development, project management, and policy development.Strong knowledge of hypervisors (preferably Windows Hyper-V or VMware’s ESX/ ESXi, VMware vCenter server management)Configure, test, and maintain LAN equipment and services, including switches, routers, firewalls and VPN.Hands on experience with storage technologies iSCSI, FC and storage devices NAS/SAN.Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Office System is required..Standard system administration duties including server install, System/Application install and patch management, Windows problem determination and resolution, log analysis, etc.Participate in the creation, maintenance, testing, and execution of the Disaster Recovery plan.