Hardware & Network Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

The main purpose of the position is to provide professional Support and management of IT infrastructure visibility, availability, scalability and reliability.

Job Responsibilities

• Implementation and support of 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.
• Formulation and analyzing business needs and recommend appropriate ICT Server and Storage infrastructure solutions to meet the Bank’s requirements.
• Conducting performance and capacity planning and develop budgets for hardware infrastructure requirements and future projections for business.
• Design modeling for provisioning, orchestrating and deployment of server infrastructure and making it readily available.
• Design, evaluation and implementation  of procedures and technical measures to enhance the security of Data Centre server and storage Infrastructure, Virtualized Server pool and Cloud Infrastructure.
• Keeping up- to- date infrastructure documentation, policies and procedural documents, disaster recovery plan and best practices that relate to hardware infrastructure.
• Providing the strategic evaluation and design of hardware solutions to support the banks requirements and supervise the technical execution of the same.
• 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

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or any Information Technology related field from a recognized and reputable University.
• Professional IT certification in the following: CCNP/CCNA/ITIL
• A minimum of 3 years work experience in a busy enterprise hardware infrastructure environment, supporting a mix of industry standard, mid-range server infrastructure and high-end enterprise storage solutions.
• Proficiency in the management and support of SUSE.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.Ability to deliver effectively under strict deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to develop working relationships with a wide range of internal and external personnel.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and efficiently manage time.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and effectiveness in working with a high performing team