Entry Level IT Jobs - Network Administrator at Stanbic Bank ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Organisation: Stanbic Bank

Duty

Station:  Crested Towers, Kampala, Uganda

Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a

subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by

Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and

financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group

focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by

assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda

by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services

through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate

and Investment Banking (CIB).

Job Summary: The Network

Administrator will offer timely technical support to the Stanbic Uganda voice

& data infrastructure.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• In
  
  charge of configuring various network devices & communication
  
  equipment such as switches & routers as per the GROUP standards.


• Keenly
  
  monitor wide area network links, international gateway VSATs, and log,
  
  report any faults with the various service providers.


• Work
  
  continuously toward reducing the Turn-around-times (TAT) or restoration
  
  times of the Stanbic networks.     


• Maintain
  
  an up-to-date inventory of all comms equipment under the infrastructure
  
  section. i.e. switches & routers 
  


• Supervise
  
  and manage resources, human or otherwise involved in the installation of
  
  WAN and LAN links at all Stanbic sites.


• Follow-up
  
  on a daily basis on all network requests for goods and services &
  
  ensure delivery to where these are needed most.  


• Enforce
  
  Stanbic IT security policies & controls in day to day network
  
  operations as required by GRCB security standards.


• Quickly
  
  respond to technical calls assigned to the team in a professional and
  
  expeditious manner.


• Ensure
  
  adherence and compliance with change procedures in day to day network
  
  operations.


• Work
  
  in liaison with the Team leader and other Team   members as one team to ensure delivery
  
  of excellent performance of the wide  
  
  area network & local networks


• Support
  
  and adopt the implementation of change   initiatives in the department.


• Reduce
  
  Downtime


• Implement
  
  Change with minimum Business disruption


• Meet
  
  contracted Service Levels


• Ensure
  
  DR capability is fit for purpose Design principles


• Improve
  
  sService through targeted Improvement Programs


• Responsible
  
  for achieving individual customer service targets (both Internal and
  
  external) and support the achievement of team targets by working towards
  
  maintaining standards of service availability as per the service level
  
  agreements with the business.


• The
  
  incumbent will also be in charge of the deployment and operation of the
  
  infrastructure environment spanning data centres and network, mainframe,
  
  open systems and distributed environments. 
  
  In addition to this, systems management, capacity management, and
  
  disaster recovery functions are also provided.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The
  
  ideal candidate for the Network Administrator vacancy should hold a
  
  University (or equivalent) degree in computer science, engineering or a
  
  related field.


• A
  
  minimum of two years of professional experience as a LAN/WAN engineer in a
  
  large and complex IT enterprise environment (50+ servers). These should
  
  include a year of hands-on configuration, administration and
  
  troubleshooting experience of LAN switches, routers and firewall devices.


• Prior
  
  experience in CISCO products


• Past
  
  experience in LAN traffic and WAN bandwidth monitoring tools.


• Experience
  
  with the application and integration of QoS, encryption and compression
  
  over WAN links.


• Hands-on
  
  experience in information security, including vulnerability testing and
  
  security assessments.


• Prior
  
  experience in IT service management and delivery based on ITIL service


• Comprehensive
  
  knowledge  of LAN technologies
  
  (switches, routers, wireless and firewalls) including centralized
  
  monitoring and management in large-scale, high-availability environments;


• Working
  
  knowledge of LAN traffic management techniques


• Thorough
  
  knowledge of IT infrastructure, TCP/IP, networking and information system
  
  security principles, practices and technologies


• Knowledge
  
  of large scale LAN/WAN switching and routing implementation and operation
  
  with specific knowledge of VLAN, VPN and MPLS networking;


• Detailed
  
  knowledge of LAN traffic management techniques;


• Detailed
  
  knowledge and understanding of core Internet routing protocols and
  
  services

All candidates who wish to join the one

of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned

capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below.

Deadline:

7^th August, 2015