Systems Administrator at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc was incorporated in September 1960 as a private limited liability company, and commenced operations in 1962 with an installed capacity of 600 metric tons per day. The Company was converted to a public limited liability company in 1978, and its shares were subsequently listed on The Nigerian Stock Exchange. In its 54 year history, Flour Mills has remained at the forefront of wheat milling in Nigeria. The Company’s flagship brand, Golden Penny, remains one of the best known and the preferred brands amongst bakers, confectioneries and consumers in Nigeria. Flour Mills has invested over N25billion in milling infrastructure over the last seven years, to maintain its competitive advantage. Today, Flour Mills has a rated milling capacity of over 8,000 metric tons per day, making it one of the largest single site mills in the world. The Company’s flagship mill located in Apapa, Lagos comprises of 10 integrated mills. Each mill was designed as a multilevel operation in order to optimize the use of gravity in the sifting process, thereby reducing the energy requirements. In addition, the Company maintains dedicated mills to the processing of different wheat varieties to produce different flour types. This has ensured consistent quality of its products for 50 years. The Apapa Mill also boasts of modern silos with a storage capacity to 191,000 metric tons. Flour Mills has also made significant investments in power generation. The Company has 11 General Electric (GE) Jenbacher gas generators at its Apapa Mills, with a combined capacity of 30 megawatts. This has enabled the company to reduce the occurrence of production stoppages. In addition, the Company has a 30megawatt diesel plant at the same site to act as a backup in the event of any shortage of feedstock to the gas generators.

Ensuring the datacenter facilities, systems, and servers run effectively and efficiently. Providing backend support for all IT services (Nutanix hyper converged, Windows servers, Office 365, Azure cloud) to all employees for hybrid working arrangement.

THE JOB

• Provide support for all users on the network and enterprise products on Microsoft Office 365 cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure the security of the server infrastructure by implementing industry-leading practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and maintain documentation about current environment setup, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
• Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with leading practices.
• Conduct and test routine system backups and restores.
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations. Escalate incidents, as necessary.
• Practice server asset management, including maintenance of server component inventory and related documentation of technical specifications.
• Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware upgrades and patch management.
• Provide support for NAS and SAN storage infrastructure and MS DFS.

THE PERSON MUST

• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Be able to manage competing priorities.
• Be able to work independently and collaboratively within teams.
• Able to resolve network issues and computer problems.

QUALIFICATION

• 1st degree (HND/BSC) in Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics or any related field.
• Certification in MCSE, ITIL Foundation.

EXPERIENCE

• Have at least 2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Familiarity with Nutanix, O365 & Azure environment management is a
• Demonstrable experience managing server loads, installation of required applications to meet network requirements, conducting server health check-ups, and troubleshooting system errors.
• Knowledge of security principles and best practices to ensure system safety.

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