Recruitment at Techno Brain

Techno Brain, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified & CMMI Level 3 Company is Africa’s leading custom software application provider. 

Techno Brain offers innovative software solutions to Government, NGO, and large Private organizations. 

Due to the recent expansions Techno Brain seeks to recruit excellent candidates for the following positions for our Managed Services Practice.

System Administrator (Servers)


Location: Abuja

Job Description

Job Title: Systems Administrator

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Day to Day Work

Key Responsibilities

In this role you will be involved in a number of support based activities in support of a major client-server & multi-sites based in-house business application system. 

Not only will you be responsible for supporting this system, but also providing focusing on the analysis, deployment and implementation of technical solutions. 

The technical environment includes:
  • Windows Servers (OS & hardware)
  • Domain & Active Directory
  • Multi production servers and
  • MS SQL Server 2000/2005
  • Enterprise system management tools
Some of your key, day to day responsibilities will include:
  • Deploy all software and hardware upgrades to the production servers and sites.
  • Proactive monitoring of all servers, applications and services to ensure high availability and SLA's.
  • Assist in implementing, testing and maintaining server level disaster recovery plans.
  • Liaise with vendors for technical issues resolution.
  • Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
  • develop and implement policies, procedures, and standards across the systems and network teams
  • Plan, organize, and manage staff and overall operations to ensure the stable operation of IT infrastructure
  • Responsible for documenting IT solution.
  • To design and implement Monitoring System and Security Tool
  • Lead Crisis management of high severity incidents and ownership of post-problem review processes (Post Mortem review / report production).
Requirements:
  • Minimum 5 years working experience in Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, GPO and Microsoft SQL 2000/2005/2008
  • At least 3 years experience as a team lead / supervisor
  • Minimum qualification of a Degree
  • Willing to work on rotational shift and to be on standby on weekends & public holidays
  • Preferable to have:
  • End user application support experience with any client server based application running on Microsoft SQL server.
  • Demonstrable experience in IT Industry standards, services, systems architecture, enterprise applications, project management and training.
  • ITIL knowledge and MCITP certification will be an advantage.
Reporting Procedure

The Systems Administrator (Server) will report directly to the IT Project Manager.

Performance Indicators

The indicators of success in this role will be as agreed under the Systems Administrator (Server) personal work plan

Network and Security Engineer 
 
Location:
Abuja Nigeria

Job Type: Contract

We are is currently seeking a Network and Security Engineer with strong Cisco Routing, Switching, Firewall , Data Center operations, and performance issue management experience. 

Candidate will responsible for building network infrastructure, responding to network problems, short and long term project work, and continually driving improvements in network performance.

The Network and Security Engineer will be responsible for analyzing, designing, installing, configuring, maintaining and repairing of network infrastructure and application components.  

The Network and Security Engineer will perform a wide variety of evaluation, maintenance, installation and training tasks to ensure the computer network performance meets company and user satisfaction.

The Network and Security Engineer will Coordinate and implement security controls and projects.
The Network and Security Engineer will also provide direction, information, and recommendations regarding network configurations and installations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Drive the design and deployment of new installations of network systems at multiple locations
  • Design and implement high performance, WAN/LAN/SAN infrastructure
  • Install, maintain, monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot data center equipment and software in support of data center operations. Support production operations environment including multiple servers, networking, batch processing, backup and related activities.
  • Employ innovative thought and automation to improve productivity, workflow, and technology deployment
  • Identify and evaluate new technology
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues
  • Find and improve performance issues
  • Work closely with other parts of the business to identify areas of high opportunity
  • Configure and setup Cisco Firewalls, VPN Concentrators and Security appliances for access to vital business applications
  • Design, setup and configure complex switching environments
  • Design, setup and configure complex wireless networking that supports open or secured access and the ability to support voice and video applications
  • Maintain a thorough understanding of Local Area Networking
  • Assist in the design of multi-server environments including IP address schemes, DNS, WINS, EtherChannel (Bonding), etc. 
  • Configuring and installing client and server network software for upgrading and maintaining network and telecommunication systems. 
  • Maintaining multi-site network operations and software applications, operating systems and regular maintenance with both private and public facilities
  • Managing assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives. 
  • Responding to inquiries from staff, administrators, service providers, site personnel and outside vendors and etc. to provide technical assistance and support 
  • Supervising the administration of systems and servers related network to ensure availability of services to authorized users. 
  • Troubleshooting malfunctions of network hardware and software applications, telephones and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services.
  • Takes lead on complex investigating both internal and external frauds and/or forgery cases and documenting and maintaining case files on investigations 
  • Liaison with and files police reports and following up with local and federal law enforcement on open investigations
  • Coordinates / Reviews and documents annual branch security surveys
  • Maintaining liaison within the market to which they are assigned with Federal and local Law Enforcement and security vendors
  • Coordinating physical security projects
  • First responder for crisis situations in the market to which they are assigned
  • Periodic branch reviews to insure that security standards are being followed
  • Provide periodic security training to branch and market personnel
  • Any other duties as assigned by management
Job Qualifications:
  • Cisco Switching
  • Cisco Routing (BGP, OSPF, MPLS)
  • Data Center Operations
  • F5 and Firewall experience
  • Experience in troubleshooting/supporting wireless technologies.
  • Experience in QOS, Wireless and VOIP.
  • Experience in security standards and security controls.
  • Performance analysis and troubleshooting
  • Packet capture and analysis
  • Deep understanding of the TCP/IP protocol
  • Able and willing to do critical strategy work all the way through hands on implementation
  • Eager to work in a collaborative, team environment.
  • Cisco Unified Communication Manager configuration and infrastructure a plus.
  • Professional knowledge of Windows and Linux Servers, Exchange, Oracle and SQL database and SQL experience a plus.
  • Knowledge of VoIP implementation and support
  • Bachelors Degree and current Cisco Certifications (CCNP, CCIE,) and security certification preferred
Reporting Procedure

The Network and security Specialist will report directly to the IT Project Manager.

Performance Indicators

The indicators of success in this role will be as agreed under the Network and security Specialist personal work plan

Database Administrator (DBA)

Location:  Abuja Nigeria

DBA Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system
  • Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning.
  • To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime (Oracle 10g/11g, SQL Server 2008).
  • Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL development.
  • Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
  • Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs.
  • Design and document database architecture. Data Modeling.
  • Design Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence platform
  • Build database scheme, tables, procedures and permissions
  • Set up data sharing and disk partitioning
  • Develop database utilities and automated reporting
  • Create shell scripts for task automation
  • Create, test and execute data management languages
  • Analyze and sustain capacity and performance requirements
  • Analyze, consolidate and tune database for optimal efficiency
  • Monitor systems and platforms for availability.
  • Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication and failover
  • Restore and recover corrupted databases
  • Install and test upgrades and patches
  • Implement security and encryption
  • Provide 24/7 support for critical situations
  • Evaluate and recommend new database technologies
  • All other responsibilities as assigned 
Job Qualifications
  • In depth Oracle and SQL Server Database Administration experience. 
  • Experience of managing multiple MS SQL 2008 & Oracle 10g/11g  RDBMS on large systems
  • Strong self-sufficiency and initiative working on Database projects
  • Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service. 
  • Experience of Transactional SQL, and DTS stored procedures.
  • Practical experience in managing the internal and external MS SQL and Oracle database security
  • Good knowledge of MSSQL and T-SQL
  • Experience of working in a large, complex organisation with a number of major IT&T systems
  • Experience in supporting a large scale, complex application systems environment
  • Experience of working to recognised project delivery standards
  • Experience of providing specialist expertise
  • Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and data dictionary definitions
  • Take ownership of capacity planning and ensure that the infrastructure team monitor capacity and provision sufficient capacity for business growth
  • Liaise with Project and Technical Design teams on logical and physical database design to ensure new application databases being commissioned are strategically aligned and fit for purpose
  • Liaise with the infrastructure team to ensure that backups, archiving and recovery procedures are in place and operating effectively and that periodic testing is performed
  • Monitor database performance and parameters to ensure fast query responses
  • Bachelors Degree and current Oracle and Microsoft Certifications for databases preferred
Reporting Procedure

The DBA will report directly to the IT Project Manager.

Performance Indicators
The indicators of success in this role will be as agreed under the Database Administrator work plan

Web Application Specialist
 
Location
: Abuja

Job Description

Job Title: Web Application Developer

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Day to Day Work

We are looking for an experienced Web Application Developer to join our team in Abuja Nigeria. The position will involve planning, implementing and maintaining updates on web pages.

Specific Job Responsibilities:
  • The Web Application Developer will support  in the development of web pages and SharePoint sites. 
  • This position involves planning, implementing, and maintaining updates on web pages. 
  • This individual provides hands-on technical leadership and direction to the technology team, understands business challenges and translates them into process/technical solutions.
Basic Qualifications
  • Experience with Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 (DTS, SSIS, and DBA experience)
  • Proficient with ASP.NET C#
  • Proficient with Classic ASP
  • Proficient with Photoshop
  • Proficient with SharePoint (Administration and design)
  • Proficient understanding of application development, administration and security techniques across the entire WISA stack (Windows, IIS, SQL, ASP.net)
  • Demonstrated proficiency with all aspects of development cycle including requirements gathering, design and implementation
  • Recommends system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
  • Supports and develops web application developers by providing advice and coaching
  • Able to break down complex requirements into actionable solutions
Education Requirements:
  • BS in Computer Science or related field
  • Job Segments: Developer, Graphic Design, Computer Science, Database, SQL, Technology, Creative
Reporting Procedure

The Web Application Specialist will report directly to the BA/SA Analyst.

Performance Indicators

The indicators of success in this role will be as agreed under the Web Application Specialist personal work plan

If you meet the above requirements please email your CV to hr.ke@technobrainltd.com by 28th June 2013 indicating your current and expected remuneration. 


Applications without salary details shall not be considered.