Desk Head, Storage Administration at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Desk Head, Storage Administration

Ref No: 2000002E
Location: Lagos
Job: IT TECH, SEC & OPS
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From: Assistant Manager Grade Range – To: Manager

Job Objective(s)

Ensuring 99.9% availability of Servers and Storage Subsystems

Duties & Responsibilities

Ensures effective monitoring of the datacenter for optimal equipment availability and performance
Review design and architecture of new solution/upgrade to ensure conformance with existing policy documents
Reviews capacity, performance, availability and other operational metrics and take appropriate action to ensure corrective and proactive maintenance of storage and backup systems to support the requirement to protect business information
Implement servers and storage capacity upgrades with Vendors
Supervise the implementation of maintenance fixes and vendor-supplied patches in accordance with the bank change management policy
Creates reports and proposals for improvement and contributes to the planning and implementation of new installations and scheduled maintenance and changes within the system.
Prepares and maintains operational procedures and provides technical expertise and appropriate information to the management.
Responsible for creating, improving, and supporting quality IT services with optimal utilization of storage resources, ensuring Data Security
Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems and responsible for the recovery of the critical activities and processes as part of the business continuity strategy
Maintain relationship and follow up on service calls with IT vendors
Provides general oversight function for the Storage Administration team.

Qualifications
Education:

Minimum Education: First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or other Science disciplines; Higher Degrees / Professional Certifications (an added advantage)

Experience: