Infrastructure Specialist Vacancy at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation

Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria (MGIC) is a non-profit affiliate of UMB with a mission to administratively support international operations of UMB Principal Investigators. Our purpose is to provide the administrative infrastructure for sizable and sustained operations outside of the U.S.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Infrastructure Specialist 
Job Location: Abuja
Responsibility

• Manage, configure, secure, support and troubleshoot applications and services on associated physical servers, virtual servers, networks, storage systems and information security systems.
• Support of storage technologies such as SAN, NAS and fiber switches and protocols such as iSCSI, NFS, FC and FCoE
• Optimize storage services by utilizing techniques such as replication (synchronous and asynchronous), snapshots, de-duplication, encryption and data protection.
• Secure the computing environment using best practices and consistent processes. Contribute to the information security practice via sound administrative practices and proactive actions.
• Configure, deploy and maintain network components including switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, VPN concentrators and security appliances.
• Ensure all systems remain functional, available and secure.
• installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers and scanners
• supervising junior engineering and technical staff
• BASH scripting support, troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Maintain the VMWare/vSphere environment including vCenter and VMWare servers.

Required Qualifications
Education: 
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or, equivalent demonstrable experience.

Experience:

• 5 years systems development and Network infrastructure support experience

Specialized knowledge:

• Proficient knowledge of Windows Server OS architecture, design, management, scripting and troubleshooting.
• Adequate understanding of applied network principles, including sub-netting, performance monitoring, scalability and disaster recovery.
• Proficient Backup/restore processing experience.
• Pass a background check as well as an alcohol, controlled substance, and illegal drug screen that meets Company standards before beginning regular employment.
• Proficient knowledge of Linux based OS architecture, design, management, scripting and troubleshooting.
• Adequate understanding of VMWare (virtualization) architecture, core services and administration.
• Adequate understanding of storage technologies and protocols.
• Proficient understanding of security best practices.
• Proficient knowledge of LAN and WAN technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, etc.).

Skills:

• Strong organizational, time management, computer and communication skills, leadership, coaching and team building skills to strengthen and cultivate relationship to help achieve organizational goal.
• Ability to recognize the sensitivity to individual organizations needs and the impact on services of the introduction of IT solutions.