Job description

Department: Department of ICT

Job purpose

To insure smooth day-to-day operations of all servers, storage and Systems by being subject matter expert in Server and Storage areaand drive the evolution of technologies including but not limited to server hardware, virtualization, containerization, Data protection, and operating systems and all these should be within ICT pillars that is high availability, Security, high scalability, high performance and in cost effective manner.

Key responsibilities

Perform daily operation activities/support for Server, Storage, virtualization, operating systems and other relating systems.
Manages entire life cycle of servers, storage, virtualization, and operating system, including new acquisition, upgrade a patching and decommission.
Implement effective strategies to improve availability, performance, scalability and security of Server infrastructure, Storage, virtualization, operating systems, and other relating systems in cost effective manner.
Analyse metrics to identify harmful trends, capacity forecasting and planning inputs.
Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
Make sure automated backup is performed as required including tape management.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain data protection throughout the servers’ infrastructure space.
Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies and redundant data sets.
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers or system owners to implement those fixes.
Develop and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Ensure technical documentation exists i.e., policies, processes and procedures for all virtualization, backup, and storage infrastructure.
Ensure all replication infrastructure between production and disaster recovery is in good working conditions.
Perform server provision based on security baseline and system requirement
Provide daily health check for server and storage infrastructure.
Monitor utilization trends of various resources in server and storage area proactively initiate resource increase if required to address capacity or performance issues.

Qualifications

and experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or a related academic field.
Minimum 4 years of Server & Storage Systems support experience and a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Banking environment.
Professional certifications in ITIL, VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV), Specialist Implementation Engineer Dell EMC Unity Solutions (DCS-IE), Oracle Exadata System and IBM Power Systems.
Knowledge of Enterprise Server Technologies, Storage Arrays and architectural knowledge of Fabric Networks.
Hands-on knowledge of zoning, troubleshooting SAN fabrics, and good understanding of NFS and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling and zoning.
Good understanding and working knowledge of IBM AIX, Linux, Windows Servers and VMware ESXi platforms.

How to apply

Apply through the CRDB Bank Plc recruitment portal: open the link, find this position in the list, click "Preview" and apply. careers.crdbbank.co.tz/jobs

Senior Specialist Servers and Storage