Analyst - Infrastructure at MTN

Job Description

Reports To: Manager - Infrastructure Design

Division: Information Technology

Mission:

Develop, document, and oversee the life cycle and maintenance of IT infrastructure components, including servers, databases, backup, storage, and systems management components for MTNN in accordance with standard design specifications.

Description:

  • Plan and monitor complex virtual clusters (VMware, Tanzu, Redhat OpenShift, Azure, Oracle Linux KVM), physical servers, databases, storage, and backup infrastructure to detect anomalies and prevent service disruptions.
  • Identify ways to streamline IT Infrastructure architecture documentation and align them to best international practices.
  • Coordinate, manage, and conduct research studies around Private and Public Cloud infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure-as-Code, Hadoop Database, MongoDB, Exchange, Oracle Database, Backup, and Microsoft business suites.
  • Leverage ITIL techniques to identify potential infrastructure incidents and provide proactive and reactive solutions to mitigate service disruptions.
  • Assist in maintaining infrastructure software license compliance across servers (physical/virtual), databases, backup, storage, etc.
  • Maintain an up-to-date inventory report for all IT infrastructure assets (servers, storage, databases, backup, etc.).
  • Provide knowledge transfer to the IT Operations team by proactively bringing awareness of new IT infrastructure changes, future roadmap initiatives, and providing procedural documentation.
  • Analyze IT infrastructure needs from business units and deliver solutions for an integrated global IT infrastructure environment.
  • Lead interactions with partners and service providers to foster strong relationships, troubleshoot major issues, determine adequate support levels, and evaluate new offerings.
  • Monitor vendors and build progress until delivery.
  • Use expertise in overall infrastructure architecture to provide enhancements to existing products across servers, backup, storage, and databases, as well as direction for future capabilities.
  • Lead specific IT infrastructure projects, including the design, justification, and implementation of new technologies.
  • Develop an understanding of infrastructure requirements and ensure project “delivery” and “quality” key performance indicators are met.

Education:

  • First degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an IT-related discipline.
  • Fluent in English.

Experience:

3-7 years of experience, including:

  • Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing, Cloud-native platform/application deployment, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Storage, and System Management products.
  • Strong experience working in a complex infrastructure environment.
  • Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, databases, backup, storage, SAN switch, and networks.

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