Rutotech International is a privately owned Nigerian company with its operational office at Block L Plot 2B Road KL, Sparklight Estate, Lagos – Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, Nigeria. It began operations in 1994 with the core business of providing leading edge solutions and services in the areas of Supplies, Installations and Maintenance of Telecommunications Equipment, and later added to its services Recruitment, Training, as well as Manpower supplies and Human Resource Management.
Tools SME/Engineer
Responsibilities
Assisting availability manager to meet the aims of availability management. This includes responsibilities such as: Analyzing and defining new/changed services for Service Availability; Identifying and documenting major/potential impacts; Cross checking with UCs to establish negotiation bottom-line
Assisting the capacity manager to meet the aims of capacity management. This includes such tasks as: Defining and analyzing need for capacity; Designing and drafting capacity plan; Generating capacity report and Generating capacity optimization plan
Providing support for a number of internal technical groups. The list include: BPO team; IMS team and AMS team
Maintenance, change deployment, trouble-shooting, covering Database, Networks, Servers, application development, business process handling.
Dealing with the final physical delivery of the service implementation; coordinating release documentation and communications
Planning the deployment in conjunction with change and knowledge management and service asset and configuration management
Providing technical and application guidance and support throughout the release process, including known errors and workarounds.
Providing feedback on the effectiveness of the release and recording metrics for deployment to ensure within agreed SLAs
Identifying problem; Initial categorization and prioritization and Recording solution and workaround in KEDB
Responsible for the schedule work
Senior Storage Engineer
Responsibilities
Administer the IT storage infrastructure including provisioning of LUNs and Volumes to servers and Virtualized infrastructure etc
Administer the Storage Area Network including managing and maintenance of the SAN fabric from host connectivity to the storage
Design and build highly scalable storage systems solution
Installation, setup and maintenance of backup environment, backup software and support backup and restore operations
Track storage utilization
Support with monitoring and reporting of system health/ performance of all nodes of the SAN fabric
Monitor storage performance / quality and implements performance tuning to resolve performance issues
Create and maintain documentation as it pertains to the storage infrastructure procedures and configuration
Tape library configuration and tape management
Report on necessary recommendations for additional storage resources or hardware and any improvements that increases performance and reliability
Work as part of a team and provide 24×7 support with on-call rotation
Responsible for the configuration and data backup operation of the centralized backup system for all backups.
Responsible for the investigation and fix any backup issues.
Work with vendors to perform incident troubleshooting and root cause analyze
Clean up the storage media containing customers data before disposing or reuse of the storage media.
Verify compliance of the operating conditions with company policy
Correct, repair or replace the damaged external storage media.
Skills and Capability Requirements
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years experience in administer/architect/engineering enterprise class storage solutions
Knowledge & Skills:
Working knowledge with multiple storage solutions (NetApp, Oracle, EMC)
Working knowledge with provisioning, maintenance, troubleshooting of enterprise storage systems
Working knowledge with Fiber Channel switches and routers
Working knowledge with Data Replication, Data Protection and Virtualization Technology
Ability to plan, document, and effectively implement projects and systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good team player with a can-do attitude
Good trouble shooting and problem solving skills
Fluency in English and the local language (written and verbal)
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, Ms-word and Power Point
Senior UNIX and VMS Server Engineer
Responsibilities
Technical Issues that cannot be solved by the L1 and requires an expert assistance to sort the issue within the SLA and Turn Around Time (TAT).
Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements in RISC servers (HPUX, AIX and VMS) environment, ensuring updates are performed, solving functional problems, and heeding the priorities of the user community – Experience – more than 2 year.
Expert-level knowledge in UNIX system administration (HPUX, AIX, SUN) and VMS
Capacity Planning for all the UNIX/VMS systems
Supervise Hardware Installs and Perform Complex OS upgrades
Deep knowledge on volume managers (LVM/SVM)
Knowledge on Virtualization, LPAR, ESX VMware.
Skills and Capability Requirements
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines
Experience:
Minimum 4 years of Unix/VMS along with cluster setup – systems administration or hands-on experience is a must
Knowledge & Skills
A Good understanding of UNIX-based operating systems, especially enterprise level HP UX/AIX/Linux/VMS distributions, including system installation / configuration, file system concepts, resource monitoring, user administration, kernel tuning, package management, and process control / management
Good Hardware Knowledge of HP BCS or, IBM AIX Servers, HP VMS is a must.
Good Knowledge on Virtualization, LPAR, ESX VMware
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good team player with a can-do attitude
Excellent trouble shooting and problem solving skills
Monitoring Executive
Responsibilities
Responsible for overall operation business, application and system monitoring, applying Event Management Process
Responsible for design and develop convenient business, application and system monitoring tools to increase monitoring productivity and increase business and operation transparency
Responsible for monitoring incidents volume, trends, major incidents, and generate daily, weekly, monthly incident reports
Responsible for generating collective reports of problem management
Responsible for monitoring service requests volume, trends and generate daily, weekly, monthly service request reports
Skills and Capability Requirements
Qualification:
Bachelor’s or MBA degree with strong academic and extracurricular performance may be substituted for two years of experience
Experience:
At least 5 years of experience in IT support up to 2nd or 3rd Line and have experience with helpdesk / call logging tools and implementing Service Desk policy and SLA’s
Working experience of managing service desk in Telecom, Managed Service, System Integration, Management Consulting field or similar industry is preferred
Working experience of team leading, and have worked on a Service Desk
Knowledge & Skills
Proven skills in managing a service desk; support monitoring team if necessary
Knowledge of implementing SLA’s and best practice is preferred
An understanding of Incident Management and Service Delivery would be beneficial to the candidate
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and local language
Senior Windows and Linux Server Engineer
Responsibilities
Technical Issues that cannot be solved by the L1 and requires an expert assistance to sort the issue within the SLA and Turn Around Time (TAT).
Experience with VMWare ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.x, vSphere
Advanced Windows server administration, security and troubleshooting, such as Active Directory, GPO management, and network authentication
Creating realistic testing scenarios and scripts to use before and after equipment and software version upgrades – Proxy configuration and security binding etc.
Working with and troubleshooting Conducting on-going system audits to evaluate the utility and efficiency of systems hardware, software and communication components to meet the business needs.
Gather necessary data for issue replication, problem determination and/or escalation
Skills and Capability Requirement
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines
Experience:
Minimum 4 years of Linux or Windows along with cluster setup – systems administration or hands-on experience is a must
Knowledge & Skills:
Deep knowledge in Windows Server 2003, 2008 deployments, RHEL , CentOS, Ubuntu
Deep knowledge in VMWare ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.x, vSpher
Protocol level – all/few of the following,: SMTP, SNMP, SNTP, POP, FTP, SSL, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, telnet, SFTP, DNS, RDP, TCP, ICMP, and UDP.
Extensive experience managing server based applications
Ability to plan, document, and effectively implement projects and systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good team player with a can-do attitude
Excellent trouble shooting and problem solving skills
Database Administrator
Responsibilities
Proactively monitor the critical database systems and ensure minimum downtime
Maintenance and improvement of databases including installation, configuration, upgrade, patches and bug fixes
Performance tuning, including database/query tuning and re-writing SQLs
Database development including writing and reviewing stored procedures
Plan and execute Backup and recovery including disaster recovery and replication
Database refreshes, data masking and schema patches
Develop and maintain database standards
Handle problem escalation with vendors as appropriate
Oversee database security
Work as part of a team and provide 24×7 support with on-call rotation
Provide support to Junior Database Administrator to resolve issue.
Create knowledge base for DB Administrator on issue and resolution.
Managing the Junior Database resource and assigning work.
Skills and Capability Requirements
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines
Mandatory to have Oracle /DB2 /SQL Server/My SQL & Unify Certification.
Experience:
Minimum of 6 years of experience in database administration, relational database design and data warehouse applications and ETL processes etc
Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge in managing very large databases instances.
Identifying and execute the RDMBS upgrade.
Working knowledge in cluster and HA environment.
Installing and configuring report service.
Ability to find server bottleneck.
Database hardening experience.
Telecom domain knowledge will be an advantage.
Experience with DB consolidation.
Expert level skills in SQL & Shell scripting
Exposure to Database Audit.
Ability to plan, document, and effectively implement projects and systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good team player with a can-do attitude
Excellent trouble shooting and problem solving skills
Fluency in English and the Spanish language (written and verbal)
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, MSWord and Power Point.
Service Level Manager
Responsibilities
Determine and document requirements for new or changed services in SLRs, and manage and review them through the Service Lifecycle into SLAs for operational services
Monitor and measure service performance achievements of all operational services against targets within SLAs
Produce service reports
Conduct service review and instigate improvements within an overall Service Improvement Plan (SIP)
Review and revise SLAs, service scope OLAs, contracts, and any other underpinning agreements
Develop, maintain and operate procedures for logging, acting and resolving all complaints, and for logging and distributing compliments
Make available and maintain up-to-date SLM document templates and standards.
Skills and Capability Requirement
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree
An Advanced degree in Management or Law may be substituted for two years of experience
Experience:
At least 5 years of experience from Managed Services, Management Consulting or Project Management within the Telecom or similar industry
Knowledge & Skills:
More than 3 experience in managing SLAs is preferred
Understand portfolio and relationship to service delivery and able to handle situations when customer demands services outside scope of contract.
Good knowledge and understanding of applicable parts of Huawei´s services product portfolio and delivery processes
Good knowledge and understanding of Huawei’s client business situation
Excellent Customer Relationship Management skills
Proven negotiation skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, MSWord and Power Point
DC Facility Management Leader
Job Description
The DC facility leader will manage the team to complete the following service:
Preparing physical facilities in line with industry best practices and Customer guidelines (ISO Standards and DCIM Standards).
Co-ordinating the resolution of raised floor equipment.
Managing and monitoring of power/cooling for the respective facilities.
Implementing effective energy management schemes to reduce environmental costs related to fuel, electricity & cooling, with demonstrable reductions in costs.
Conducting data centre and rack space planning including rack placement and floor plan design for existing and new data centers.
Developing and Maintaining physical configuration plan for the infrastructure assets
Manage and co-ordinate equipment install/moves and changes to all hardware.
Manage, co-ordinate, install and conduct the de-installation of hardware equipment.
Manage and co-ordinate the physical access control of the data centres and remote computer rooms in accordance with the agreed security practices.
Manage, co-ordinate, install and maintain data centre cabling (Fiber, UTP, infiniband and other).
Conduct daily data centre inspections, and conduct corrective steps to remediate equipment that is faulty for all equipment, including, but not limited to:
Power and cooling equipment
Server hardware
Networking and SAN hardware
Storage hardware
Building monitoring systems
Cabling
Inspection and management of fire suppression equipment, maintained by facilities management, issues should be reported and managed to completion.
Advisory and design of data centre facilities for both existing and new data centres that may be commissioned throughout the life cycle of the contract.
Capacity management of data centre facilities.
Conduct physical equipment moved between data centres as required
Senior Network Engineer (L2)
Responsibilities
Establishes and maintains production and corporate network by configuring/upgrading network hardware
resolve complex support issues that may not be well documented, and apply your knowledge to writing and improving support procedures.
Maximizes network performance by monitoring, troubleshooting network environment
Maintain secure network by establishing and enforcing policies
Ensure continuous improvement in network infrastructure uptime, stability, security and documentation
Keep existing infrastructure support documentation up to date.
Create network infrastructure support documentation where it does not exist.
Attend day/weekly meetings to discuss problems, processes, etc.
Be able to resolve daily issues within SLA.
Skills and Capability Requirement
Qualification:
Technology-focused bachelor’s degree, certification (CCNP/CCIE) or commensurate experience.
Experience:
4+ years of experience with administration, implementation and troubleshooting of IP network. Cisco experience is a requirement
Knowledge & Skills:
Proven experience with designing solutions that meet industry best practice standards within complex network environments.
In-depth knowledge of network technologies at all layers of the OSI reference model:
LAN and WAN physical access technologies
Switching protocols (MPLS, spanning-tree, 802.1ad, VLANs, 802.1q, etc.)
Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, static routing, etc.)
IP, TCP and UDP based applications and protocols
Expert level firewall appliance experience (Checkpoint, Cisco, Juniper/Netscreen, etc.)
Expert level network loadbalancing appliance experience (Cisco, F5, etc.)
Demonstrable understanding of how diverse systems and technologies interact in a complex network environment.
Complete understanding of VPN/transport encryption technologies:
IPSec
SSL
DMVPN
GET VPN
SSH tunneling
Expert ability in creating and reading network trace packet captures.
Expert ability in creating standardized network infrastructure documentation.
Ability to maintain a professional demeanor when placed in high-stress and high-pressure situations.
Ability to work efficiently and effectively in an environment with little day to day task based direction.
EUS Support Leader
Job Description
The leader will manage the team to complete the following service:
Troubleshoot and resolve network access and server issues.
Proactively assist in service desk duties, supporting printers, hardware, software and related technical issues at the desk side.
Install and configure operating systems and other business related software on End User computing devices.
Ensure all client applications are at the current software patch levels in line with the Customer’s Enterprise software Update policy.
Configure, set up and troubleshoot e-mail access.
Configure and set up of hardware such as End User computers, printers (network and dedicated) and other peripherals.
Data back-up and recovery of user data stored on End User devices on to removable medium will be performed as part of regular IMAC activities.
Detect, diagnose and correct computer hardware, software, and peripheral errors.
Replace any in-scope hardware device which is not working in accordance with the agreed Service Levels.
Plan, schedule and execute preventative maintenance of computers and peripherals.
Provide regular progress reports on key issues and provide recommendations on new enhancements that would improve the efficiency of the systems.
Method of Application
Applicants should send their CV’s to: dorcas@rutotechintl.com, bunmi@rutotechintl.com