Job Description

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Head Infrastructure & Data Centre
Primary Location: Kenya-Nairobi-Head Office-1st Floor
Organization: Information Communication Technology
Number of Openings: 1
Closure Date: Feb 26, 2020

Position Summary and Key Responsibilities

Position scope:
Responsible for managing end-to-end operations, processing, maintenance and enhancement of the Bank’s Networks and Infrastructure for smooth business operations and attaining of strategic corporate goals and objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable for day to day operational, processing, administrative and maintenance tasks of Bank’s Infrastructure.


• Providing high availability of all bank’s systems and services


• Manage the day-to-day Data Centre tasks & maintenance of the data center environmental facilities


• Enforcing compliance and adherence to SLAs for all service providers and vendor management.


• Monitoring and managing entire Bank’s network for optimal uptime of the LANs and WANs.


• Working with other ICT and business teams to achieve business targets and customer service in Line with Bank’s strategy.


• Ensuring Disaster Recovery (DR) and BCP capabilities for all systems in the bank including Quarterly testing.


• Fast tracking audit and risk register issues and ensuring the gaps are closed.


• Managing Infrastructure, Networks and team engagement for better Performance and productivity.


• Establish a planning process for review of performance, security, quality and capacity of all Hardware, Servers and PCs


• Continuously monitor and report the availability, performance and capacity of hardware resources


• Management of reliable, quality and secure servers within approved industry standards in order to optimized technologies


• Participate in partnership with service providers to reduce Total Cost of Ownership


• Plan and implement ICT Hardware systems as part of the Bank’s Business Continuity Management


• Stays current with technological developments in systems administration technology and recommends ways for the Bank to take advantage of new technology in hardware and data center.

Qualifications
Skills & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in ICT, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.

• Project Management, ITIL Certification


• In depth knowledge and experience in ICT Hardware, Operating systems and systems operations.


• Post graduate degree


• Knowledge of Banking industry, standards and procedures.


• Ten (10) years’ relevant experience in IT field four (4) in a management position in Networks and Infrastructure. environment


• ICT Strategy development


• ITIL Governance Standards


• Core banking systems


• Enterprise Architecture


• Disaster recovery planning


• Business Continuity planning


• Infrastructure development


• IT Security and Security appliances


• Data Centre Management


• Systems Administration


• Service Desk Analysis


• Server Management


• Leadership and management


• Good communication skills.


• Ability to maintain and promote a positive attitude and work environment by leading through example


• Team player and ready to work under pressure


• Performance Management and team building


• Professionalism


• Integrity and honesty

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