Responsibilities

Lead and manage infrastructure projects from inception to completion, ensuring project deliverables are met within agreed timelines, scope, and quality standards.
Maintain and support day-to-day infrastructure operations to ensure system availability, performance, and reliability.
Implement preventive maintenance activities and continuous service improvements.
Design, implement, administer, and optimise enterprise virtualisation environments.
Manage virtual machines, clusters, resource allocation, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure upgrades.
Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise storage systems and Network Attached Storage (NAS) platforms.
Manage storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and storage optimisation.
Ensure data availability, integrity, and redundancy through appropriate storage architecture and best practices.
Design and maintain enterprise backup architectures and data protection strategies.
Implement backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
Monitor backup success rates, troubleshoot failures, and ensure compliance with recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
Periodically perform backup restoration testing and disaster recovery exercises.
Coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, engineers, and operational teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Develop implementation plans, technical documentation, operational procedures, and handover materials.
Conduct system testing, validation, and acceptance activities prior to project go-live.
Ensure smooth transition and knowledge transfer to the operations team upon project completion.
Ensure compliance with operational standards, security policies, and best practices.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders, business users, vendors, and technology partners.
Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members when required.

Requirements

At least 5 - 10 years’ experience in design, developing, implementing, automates, project management and maintaining IT systems
Strong project ownership with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Technical Skills: Enterprise Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), Enterprise Storage Technologies (SAN, NAS, Unified Storage Solutions), Backup and Recovery Solutions (e.g., Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik).
Experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, Windows and Linux Server Administration, Infrastructure Monitoring, Capacity Planning, and Performance Optimization.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong documentation and technical reporting skills.
Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
ITIL Foundation Certification
Relevant certifications: Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat, Nutanix, VMware, Dell, Veritas

Shortlisted candidates will be offered a 1 Year agency contract employment.