Dangote Group Recruitment for a Proactive Engineer

The Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified manufacturing conglomerates. The Group continues to grow its vision of becoming the leading provider of essential needs in Food and Shelter in Sub-Saharan Africa with sustained market leadership in Cement Manufacturing, Sugar Milling, Sugar Refining, Packaging Material Production and Salt Refining.

We are recruiting to fill the position below: 

Job Position: Proactive Engineer
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Work Schedule: Shift
Job Description

• Identify and respond to security events at Edge and for our customers.
• Proper documentation and reports of equipment performance in the Data Center.
• Restriction, monitoring and control of access into the Data Center.
• To ensure that management are updated with regular reports (Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annual) depending on management need.
• Responsible for all Change Management Request (CMR) for the Data Center, Links and Site activities.
• Providing 1st level support to all Data Center, Network, Server or Security related issue.
• Monitor, alert on, resolve and document equipment hardware, software, environment, operating parameters, etc. to ensure acceptable performance levels are maintained.
• Fault handling and escalation (identifying and responding to faults on networks, liaising with 3rd party suppliers, handling escalation through to resolution) following procedures and policy.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure security issues with the operations and applications teams responsible for the design, build and operations of Dangote global network infrastructure.
• Fault management, configuration and Change Management activities.
• Observing trends and generating server or network reports to maintain & enhance quality service.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Ensuring 99.9% network availability by proactively monitoring and Maintenance of all monitoring tool (PRTG, etc).

Job Requirements
Minimum qualifications:

• Experience with the Linux operating system, cloud infrastructure (i.e. Azure or GCP) and networking concepts.
• Experience with large distributed systems.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with coding/scripting in Python, Perl, Ruby or Bash.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience identifying potential vulnerabilities and driving them to closure.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders and to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects efficiently.
• Familiarity with log analysis, anomaly detection, data loss prevention (DLP), intrusion detection systems (IDS) and signature development.
• Familiarity with network design, network security, authentication, authorization techniques, and encryption protocols and standards.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying and responding to security or privacy issues, including developing signatures, monitoring alerts, detailed logs analysis, and investigation.
• Ability to scale themselves by identifying and/or driving efficient processes or automation to reduce ongoing incidents.