Hardware Systems Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

Department Description

To ensure delivery of effective, high available, secure enterprise servers and storage infrastructure (Hardware Systems infrastructure) throughout the KCB business; as well as proper functioning of all technology infrastructure for Hardware systems (Server and Storage) across the business

Responsible for the overall effectiveness and efficiency of a highly virtualized Wintel server environment and to ensure high levels of service satisfaction are maintained. Monitor functioning of server and storage infrastructure and make necessary modifications to ensure bank systems operates in conformance with specifications and increase efficiency in operation and provide advice on preferred Hardware Infrastructure Technologies.

Brief Description

evaluate, implement and support the 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 is available for business continuity and manage 24x7 Data Centre operations and high-end infrastructure SLAs.

Detailed Description

• Design, implement and support Enterprise private cloud Infrastructure up to and including the computing infrastructure and the platform and storage infrastructure
• Management and support of Red Hat Enterprise virtualization for the bank’s core banking system
• Design and implementation of hardware systems for both server and storage solutions to support business growth for new business outlets and systems
• Conduct performance and capacity planning and develop budgets for hardware infrastructure requirements and future projections for business.
• Deployment and support of BCM strategies with VMware Site Recovery Manager, EMC SRDF technologies and HP Service guard for the private cloud and core banking infrastructure
• Design, evaluate and implement procedure and technical measures to enhance the security of Data Centre server and storage Infrastructure and the Virtualized Server infrastructure.
• Keeping up- to- date infrastructure documentation, policies and procedural documents, disaster recovery plan and best practices that relate to hardware infrastructure.
• Provide the technical support in the design of converged infrastructure hardware solutions to support the banks requirements and supervise the technical execution of the same.
• Periodic review of the new technologies on IT hardware platforms in line with best industry approach to support business growth
• Conduct contingency planning for potential IT hardware unavailability and back up strategies for the server and storage infrastructure to ensure business continuity.

Job Requirements

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or ICT related
• Professional Qualifications
• The candidate should possess MUST posses one of the following IT certifications: -
• VMware Certified Professional VCP6-DCV or VCP5-DCV
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator – RHCSA
• Red Hat Certified Engineer – RHCE
• The candidate must have at least 3-4 years working experience in a busy enterprise hardware infrastructure environment, supporting a mix of industry standard, mid-range server infrastructure. and high end enterprise storage solutions.
• Should also possess good analytical and communications skills, with good customer service experience

Additional Details

IT Certification in either of the following is an added advantage:

• CCNP
• CCNA
• ITIL