Infrastructure Administrator

Leadway Pensure PFA Limited ("Leadway Pensure") was incorporated on the 25th day of August, 2004 as a Pension Fund Administrator in accordance with the provisions of the Pension Reform Act 2004. Formed by a consortium of three (3) major financial service companies, Leadway Pensure is one of the most capitalized PFA's in Nigeria with an authorized share capital of N2.0 Billion. Our shareholder's fund is in excess of N7.0 Billion, unimpaired by losses. Since its inception, we have positioned ourselves as one of Nigeria's foremost Pension Fund Administrators.

Leadway Pensure boasts of extensive national coverage as well as in-depth experience in pension administration and fund management for prominent corporate organizations, states, and federal government institutions. Our shareholders have a combined experience of over 125 years in the delivery of professional fund management services.

Our outstanding experience, expertise, technology, and transparency positions us to deliver on our promise of providing you simple, coherent, efficient and exceptional quality service. Leadway Pensure PFA is reputed for her professional business ethics and corporate governance, which are driven by the unflinching level of integrity of its Directors and Shareholders.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Alignment of Infrastructure Unit with IT Strategy
• Monitor / manage virtual Infrastructure
• Optimizing compute resources – Hosts, Virtual Machines, Storage
• Onsite virtual machines backup and recovery
• Ensuring OEM recommended updates are applied to ensure virtual infrastructure is completely in compliance and secured
• Managing storage infrastructure and SAN fabric
• HP Storage and expansions, EMC VNX Unified storage, NetApp FAS, and IBM Storage
• Managing and monitoring Disaster & Recovery site resources for business continuity
• A key resource in the Disaster Recovery process
• Ensuring business-critical servers are replicated within acceptable RPO & RTO with the provision of daily reports on replication and link status
• Ensuring business continuity testing is carried out in accordance with IT policy
• Day-to-day on-call administration and support of on-premise exchange servers, databases, and archiving of mailboxes as set in our IT policy
• Network management, monitoring, and optimization
• Preventive Server and Workstation maintenance
• Ensure availability, reliability, and optimal performance of all physical servers
• Ensuring all hardware are under support and warranty cover
• Ensure redundancy is completely built into the system to eliminate service failure
• Report and prepare strategies to maintain server infrastructure
• Management of infrastructure at remote branch office
• Sourcing & purchasing of hardware/replacement parts and consumables
• To serve as a contact for suppliers, vendors, and service providers
• To conduct product evaluations of upgraded or new hardware and software identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential benefits and recommend purchases
• Vendor Management, review of  contracts, and enforcement of policy
• Managing Information Technology CMDB and coordinating the distribution of equipment
• Datacentre Management & Environmental monitoring
• Ensuring the datacentre meets approved standards
• Enforcing proper onboarding of equipment
• Enforcing approved security policies.
• Datacentre general infrastructure management including racking, cabling, organization, and other daily practices

• University degree in the field of computer science, engineering, or information systems
• Holds VMWare Certified Professional certification
• Holds 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)

Competencies

• 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
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve network problems including network connectivity, traffic utilization, etc. using available network tools in a timely fashion
• 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
• Create, request, and present technical specifications and requirements for purchasing new servers and networking equipment via quote procedure
• At least 3 years experience in business analysis or related field
• Writing of business functional and non-functional requirement documents and business cases
• Experience in understanding user needs and a business outcome approach
• Experience in testing
• Experience working with senior decision-makers

Skills 

• Innovative thinker – ability to turn customer requirements into workable solutions
• Ability to research for information and resources
• Highly organized, methodical, and tenacious

Knowledge 

• Experience in working with current information technologies including Support, Servers, and Network Administration
• Knowledge of user/desktop management
• Evidence of hardware troubleshooting skills, including both desktop and server hardware

Attitude 

• Highly self-motivated, and attentive to detail
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• A desire to contribute to the development of the company's AUM as a whole