Hardware Systems Infrastructure Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

Reporting to Senior Manager, Hardware Systems Infrastructure the position is responsible for:

• The implementation and support of High end and Mid- Range IT Infrastructure in line with Bank’s Vision and provisioning High Available Server infrastructure for the Critical Server systems.
• Ensuring infrastructure high availability, business continuity and effective management of 24×7 Data Centre operations and high end infrastructure SLAs.
• Design and implementation of Cloud infrastructure systems for the Bank

Key Responsibilities of the Systems Engineer:

• Formulate, analyze business needs and recommend appropriate ICT Server and Storage infrastructure solutions to meet the Bank’s requirements.
• Conduct performance and capacity planning as well as develop budgets for hardware infrastructure requirements and future projections for business.
• Design modeling for provision, orchestrating and deployment of server infrastructure, ensuring that it is readily available.
• Design, evaluate and implement procedures and technical measures to enhance the security of Data Centre server, storage Infrastructure, Virtualized Server pool and Cloud Infrastructure.
• Keep updated infrastructure documentation, policies and procedural documents, disaster recovery plan and best practices that relate to hardware infrastructure.
• Provide strategic evaluation and design of hardware solutions to support the
• Bank’s requirements as well as supervise the technical execution of the same.
• Conduct contingency planning for potential IT hardware unavailability and back up strategies for the server and storage infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
• Monitor Server and Storage infrastructure to ensure smooth operation and achieve customer satisfaction.
• Inventory management and best practice in hardware and software standardization
• Design and implement cost management policies, progress on lease model of asset management and also manage SLAs to ensure High Availability of Mission Critical
• Servers and Business Continuity.

Qualifications for The Systems Engineer Jobs:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in ICT related field is mandatory
• Professional qualifications in the following areas:-
• MCSE Certification
• VMware VCP certification (Mandatory)
• Storage Administration Certification in EMC , NetApp or HP
• Certification in Blades systems technology
• Linux Certification  (Mandatory)
• Minimum of 4 years working experience in a busy ICT Cloud Infrastructure environment
• A Master’s Degree will be an added advantage