Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners – Our client is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: ITSM Release Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- We are in need of a dynamic ITSM Release Manager who will work on:
- Integrating IT Release management activities into the overall project and demand management plan.
- Driving faster adoption, greater ultimate utilization and higher proficiency on the Releases impacting the business.
Responsibilities
- Innovative approaches to the analysis of information and generation of useful information from it.
- Coordinate and manage the process of planning, building, testing and deploying of MTNN IS hardware, application and software and version control and storage of software and releases
- Coordinate, convenes, and facilitates Release Management meetings and maintain a schedule of approved and tentative releases
- Verify the completeness and timeliness of Release information entered into the system and follows up on non-compliant release to the process.
- Coordinate and monitor the MTNN IS patch management process to guide against viral attack
- Ensure the effective monitoring of patches deployed in the environment
- Refine processes that identify, control, maintain and verify all changes and releases in controlled environments
- Identify improvement areas in the project delivery cycle and implement lessons learnt following project closure
- Ensure adherence to and alignment with change management process
- Conduct post implementation reviews for all products and services, maintaining an updated tracker for all identified issues while ensuring prompt resolution within agreed SLAs
- Produce ad hoc resource usage reports and analysis
- Create monthly, quarterly release schedule calendar and ensure compliance to proposed go-live dates
- Evaluate, prioritize multiple clients’ needs internal and external of the business.
- Keep abreast of business process changes and communicate these to all stakeholders.
Job Requirements
- First degree in Computer Science or an IT equivalent degree
- Practitioner Certificate in ITIL – IT Service Transition or equivalent certification
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in area of specialization with experience working with people
- Experience in a medium organization
- Experience IT Service Support and Delivery Experience
- Experience in governance of enterprise information systems
- Min 1 year Release Management Experience
- Project management Experience
- Experience in handling Release management issues
- Experience working with a range of service
- Provides Understanding of service delivery and service support environments.
Job Title: IT Infrastructure Specialist
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract
Job Description
We are in need of an IT infrastructure senior specialist to work in the following:
- Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
- Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
- Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
- Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
- Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
- Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
- Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
- Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
- Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
- Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
Requirements
Education:
- First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
- Fluent in English
- Masters advantageous.
Experience:
- At least 8 years’ experience which includes:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
- Experience working in a medium to large organization
- Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
- Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
- Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
- Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
- Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
- Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
- Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
Cetifications:
- Functional Skills Development
- Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
- COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
- Secure Development
- Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
- Certified Governance Enterprise I
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
- ISO 27005 Risk management.
Deadline: 15th March, 2020.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in MS word format, current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com , idriso@gvapartners.com , okeyo@gvapartners.com with the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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