AMECRON Nigeria Limited is an indigenous firm established and incorporated on the 26th of June 1980, under the companies and allied matters decree of Nigeria, 1968. Primarily set up, as a consulting Civil Engineering firm, the company served both the private and public sectors for a decade, before entering into the Oil and Gas industry in the turn of the decade (1990).
Description
General Services:
- 1st and 2nd Line Incident Management
- 1st and 2nd Line Incident Management
- 1st and 2nd Line Incident Management
- 1st and 2nd Line Incident Management
- 1st and 2nd Line Incident Management
- Request Management
- Change and Problem Management
- OS Backup Management
- Asset Inventory, Support Documentation and Spares Management
- Hardware Infrastructure management/support.
Specific User Services:
- VWS Landscape infrastructure support
- VWS Landscape user support
- VWS Landscape - Deskside visits.
Backend Services:
- Standalone Linux System support - RHEL
- Standalone Linux System support - RHEL
- Standalone Linux System support - Seismic Clusters
- Standalone Linux System support - Seismic Clusters.
TOE Compliance:
- Infrastructure / Platform
- SuSE
- SuSE
- RHEL VWS Blades
- VWS Maintenance Window for Windows blades only
- RHEL Systems
- Seismic clusters.
Support to other teams:
- Project Activities
- IT Clinic
- Support to other suppoort teams (storage, linux, database)
- Control ACD and Documentation Reviews
- Compliance Remediations
- Vulnerability Remediations
- Audit Response
- Review and respond to User and Monitoring tool mails
- Review and respond to device status reports
- Review and respond to service now ticket
- Review and respond to MS Teams calls
- Review and respond to ACD calls
- Review and respond to User requests
- Plan and execute changes
- Ensure monthly OS backups
- Maintain and update device support and spare records
- Provide hardware support for window servers and blades
- Provide system administration support to all users services
- Provide system administration support to all users services
- Plan and complete Deskside visits where required
- Provide system administration support to RHEL infrastructure
- Provide user-related system support to all users of RHEL servers
- Provide system administration support to seismic cluster nodes
- Provide user-related system support for Seismic cluster services
- Ensure TOE compliance for infrastructure firmware
- Ensure TOE compliance for infrastructure Operating Systems
- 3rd Line activities to help ensure TOE compliance for infrastructure Operating Systems
- Ensure OS TOE compliance for Windows and RHEL VWS Blades
- Ensure Monthly OS patching
- Ensure TOE compliance for infrastructure Operating Systems
- Ensure TOE compliance for infrastructure Operating Systems
- Provide support to project delivery
- Customer Engagement Sessions
- Adhoc support team requests
- Process Documents
- Remediation of all events of interest on controls for SOx and Non-SOx assets
- Remediation of all events of interest on controls for D&M SOx and Non-SOx assets (5 controls)
- Respond to Audit queries from LOD2 and External auditors.
Job Responsibilities
- The Linux Systems Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
- This position assists project teams with technical issues in the initiation, planning and implementation phases with multiple departments, clients, and vendors.
- The Linux Systems Administrator will be involved in the continued implementation, rollout, maintenance, and support of all corporate software and servers and related infrastructure.
- This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
- This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values and enabling staff.
- The ideal candidate is a strong technology professional with experience in a variety of environments for server and application administration for all development, testing, and production systems.
The key responsibilities include:
- Ensure HSE goal zero is achieved in all aspect operations service delivery.
- Ensure that servers’ availability is within agreed SLA.
- Incident/Problem resolution on escalation from 1st and 2nd Line Support
- Ensure backup operations are up and running.
- Ensure adherence to established processes.
- Events and capacity management
- Operations support for Hosting and Storage projects
- Hosting and Storage infrastructure security monitoring and remediation
- Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
- Configure / add new services as necessary.
- Develop, maintain installation and configuration procedures through the change management process.
- Participates in internal and client project planning for business systems and is relied upon to research and develop solutions/suggestions.
- Interface with hardware/software vendors to provide guidance on design and usability.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.
Key Interfaces:
- DBA & Middleware Team
- Hosting and Storage Project Team
- IT Security and compliance Team
- Subsurface and Wells Team
- Exploration, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering Application Support Team.
Job Dimension
- Works as part of a team that provides support for about:
- Suse Linux servers and 2 support systems
- Physical & Virtual Linux servers
- Linux clusters with cluster nodes
- VWS Linux and Windows Workstations.
Job Purpose:
- Provide technical expertise for RedHat Linux
- Provide technical expertise for Suse Linux
- Provide infrastructure support for Linux based applications.
- Provide infrastructure benchmarks and ensure projects are delivered to operations specification.
- IT security and compliance management.
Special Challenges:
- Understanding of Operations Delivery process
- Understanding of Enterprise Services, Delivery Verticals, Business Interface and IDSO
- Understanding the nature of cross function reporting and communication
- Understanding of virtualization technologies with focus on VMware vSphere.
Requirements
Education & Experience:
- A Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, physical sciences, or Engineering.
- Ability to speak read and write in the English language.
- At least 5 years’ experience in Systems Administration within the Unix or Linux environment
- Formal Professional Training and Certification in RHCE and ITILF will be added advantage.
- Formal Professional Training on Linux System Administration & Troubleshooting and IT Service Management skills.
- Experience in working with or a good awareness of NetApp Storage Infrastructure.
- Has excellent project management skills to build and execute project plans for system upgrades, patches, rollouts, etc.
- Good understanding of the EP business
- Good understanding of the trends in the IT industry
- Ability to lead and manage third party personnel.
- Ability to manage relations with peers and senior EP business managers effectively in various organisations.
- Strong interpersonal skills, which are critical and required to develop the professional respect essential for successful performance.
- Natural flair for documentation and knowledge sharing
- Ability to communicate with and understand the needs of clients.
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