Primera Africa Finance Group is a financial services firm that provides a range of services to clients across the African continent. Our goal is to provide bespoke financial solutions, in the most professional and efficient manner to meet our clients' individual needs. Such ambition requires the ability to understand the various peculiar needs of our clients, in the context of their local environments, with the ability to provide the simplest solutions to the most complex problems. Our continued quest for innovative solutions for our clients ensures they keep up with the ever-evolving financial markets.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Administration of the company's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
- Administration of the company’s Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Microsoft 365 Global Administrator.
- Team Lead in the migration of the Temenos 24 R18 Core Banking Application from On-Premise server to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Created and implemented VPN tunnels with failover groups between AWS VPC and Sophos Firewall.
- Administration of Windows Servers and Systems on-premises.
- Administration of Microsoft Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Domain Controller.
- Support security solutions, including Sophos Firewall, and Bit-Defender Anti-virus.
- Scrum Master Professional
- Agile Project Management Professional
- Team Lead on the implementation and resolution of Vulnerability and Penetration Testing (VAPT) findings.
- Team member on the IT Steering Committee (ITSC) and Information Security Steering Committee (ISSC) to review the company’s processes, operations, and IT infrastructure to meet up with the regulatory standard.
- Provide 1st-level support of all operational applications across the company. E.g., NIBSS E-Reference Portal, NIBSS Helpdesk Platform, My Bank Statement Portal, E-Passport Verification System (The Nigeria Immigration Service), VerifyMe portal, OFI ICAD UPLOAD Portal, Access Door/Camera Portal.
- Business applications support E.g., Prime Pay, Prime Serve, Internal Resource Stream (IRS) platform.
- Supporting the WAN and ensure network connectivity of all workstations.
- Software installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of end user workstation hardware, and software.
- Supporting users daily to contribute to their overall IT needs and strategy.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (Minimum)
- Minimum of B.Sc. preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE (Minimum number of years)
- Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience as Network and Systems Administrator with relevant experience on Cloud servers and security, Azure and Database.
- Experience in the Financial Services Industry is an advantage
REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCIES (technical and soft skills)
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Proven work experience managing the Servers, Networks and infrastructure.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Experience in Network and systems troubleshooting and communication.
- Demonstrated track record in bringing value to the business by being an effective partner.
- Knowledge of banking operations
- Process Improvement
- Change Management
- Pay attention to details
- Team player
- Honest, proactive and hardworking
- Ability to adapt to change
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