The Dangote Group is one of the most diversified business conglomerates in Africa with a hard-earned reputation for excellent business practices and products' quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa. The Group's activities encompass: Cement - Manufacturing / Importing Sugar - Manufacturing & Refining Salt - Refining Flour & Semolina - Milling Pasta - Manufacturing Noodles - Manufacturing Poly Products - Manufacturing Logistics - Port Management and Haulage Real Estate Dangote Foundation Since inception, the Group has experienced phenomenal growth on account of quality of its goods and services, its focus on cost leadership and efficiency of its human capital. Today, Dangote Group is a multi-billion Naira company poised to reach new heights, in every endeavour competing with itself to better the past. The Group's core business focus is to provide local, value added products and services that meet the 'basic needs' of the populace. Through the construction and operation of large scale manufacturing facilities in Nigeria and across Africa, the Group is focused on building local manufacturing capacity to generate employment and provide goods for the people.
Job Summary:
The Network Operations Specialist is responsible for the daily performance and availability of the organisation’s Local and Wide Area Networks (LAN & WAN). Analyse the network and recommend upgrades/changes; assess the organisation's current and future network needs.
Responsibilities
- Plan and maintain network installation, circuit integration, network equipment maintenance, and operations.
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot network issues.
- Monitoring network performance to identify potential problems and help ensure high-performance levels.
- Prepare a monthly network availability report.
- Maintaining the network infrastructure by troubleshooting problems with the Firewall, routers, switches, wireless controller, firewall, wireless access-point, radius server, etc.
- Create BOM for new, faulty and EOL network devices.
- Implement software upgrades or patches on network-related devices.
- Maintaining records of network activity, such as logs of user activity or system performance metrics
- Facilitate Change Management requests and execution according to SOP or MOP.
- Ensure network documentation is up to date.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) or Higher National Diploma (HND) in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 - 6 years of working experience in the same or related position. Cisco and Networking certifications; CCNP, Fortinet NSE4 & Palo-Alto PCNSE
- Experience working with networking protocols, including TCP/IP, IPsec, DMVPN, GRE, VXLAN, VRRP, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.
- Proficient in leading networking technologies, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), Wi-Fi 7, and network automation.
- Proficient in Unified Threat Management (UTM) Solutions.
- Excellent communication skills.
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