Analyst - Infrastructure at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa\'s leading cellular telecommunications company. On May 16, 2001, MTN became the first GSM network to make a call following the globally lauded Nigerian GSM auction conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission earlier in the year. Thereafter the company launched full commercial operations beginning with Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. MTN paid $285m for one of four GSM licenses in Nigeria in January 2001. To date, in excess of US$1.8 billion has been invested building mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria. Since launch in August 2001, MTN has steadily deployed its services across Nigeria. It now provides services in 223 cities and towns, more than 10,000 villages and communities and a growing number of highways across the country, spanning the 36 states of the Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Many of these villages and communities are being connected to the world of telecommunications for the first time ever. The company\'s digital microwave transmission backbone, the 3,400 Kilometre Y\'elloBahn was commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo in January 2003 and is reputed to be the most extensive digital microwave transmission infrastructure in all of Africa. The Y\'elloBahn has significantly helped to enhance call quality on MTN network.

Mission:

• Develop, document and oversee the life cycle and maintenance of IT infrastructure components, including servers, databases, backup, storage, and systems management components for MTNN in accordance with standard design specifications. 

Description:

• Plan and monitor complex virtual clusters (VMware, Tanzu, Redhat OpenShift, Azure, Oracle Linux KVM) , physical server, database, storage, backup infrastructure to detect anomalies and prevent service disruptions to the greatest degree possible 
• Identify ways to streamline IT Infrastructure architecture documentation and align them to best international practice. 
• Coordinate, manage and conduct research studies around Private and Public Cloud infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure-as-Code, Hadoop Database, MongoDB, Exchange, Oracle Database, Backup, Microsoft business suites. 
• Leverage ITIL technics to identify potential Infrastructure incidents and provide proactive and reactive solutions to mitigate disruption to services. 
• Assist in maintaining Infrastructure software license compliance across servers (Physical/virtual), database, backup, storage, etc. 
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory report for all IT Infrastructure assets (servers, storage database, backup etc.) 
• Provide knowledge transfer to the IT Operations team by proactively bringing awareness of new IT Infrastructure changes, future roadmap initiatives and provide procedural documentation 
• Analyze IT Infrastructure needs from business units and deliver solutions for an integrated global IT infrastructure environment 
• Lead interactions with partners and service providers to foster strong relationships and troubleshoot major issues, determine adequate support levels, and evaluate new offerings 
• Monitor vendors and build progress until delivery 
• Uses expertise in overall infrastructure architecture to provide enhancements to existing products across server, backup, storage, database as well as direction for future capabilities 
• Leads specific IT Infrastructure projects including the design, justification, and implementation of new technologies.
• Develop an understanding of Infrastructure requirements and ensure Project “delivery” and “Quality” Key Performance Indicators are met.

Education:

• First degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or IT related discipline  
• Fluent in English  

Experience:

3-7 years’ experience which includes 

• Minimum of 3 years Hands-on experience in Cloud Computing, Cloud-native Platform/application deployment, Virtualization, Operating System, Storage and System Management products. 
• Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment 
• Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks 

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