Latest Jobs at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners – Our client is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: ITSM Release Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • We are in need of a dynamic ITSM Release Manager who will work on:
  • Integrating IT Release management activities into the overall project and demand management plan.
  • Driving faster adoption, greater ultimate utilization and higher proficiency on the Releases impacting the business.

Responsibilities

  • Innovative approaches to the analysis of information and generation of useful information from it.
  • Coordinate and manage the process of planning, building, testing and deploying of MTNN IS hardware, application and software and version control and storage of software and releases
  • Coordinate, convenes, and facilitates Release Management meetings and maintain a schedule of approved and tentative releases
  • Verify the completeness and timeliness of Release information entered into the system and follows up on non-compliant release to the process.
  • Coordinate and monitor the MTNN IS patch management process to guide against viral attack
  • Ensure the effective monitoring of patches deployed in the environment
  • Refine processes that identify, control, maintain and verify all changes and releases in controlled environments
  • Identify improvement areas in the project delivery cycle and implement lessons learnt following project closure
  • Ensure adherence to and alignment with change management process
  • Conduct post implementation reviews for all products and services, maintaining an updated tracker for all identified issues while ensuring prompt resolution within agreed SLAs
  • Produce ad hoc resource usage reports and analysis
  • Create monthly, quarterly release schedule calendar and ensure compliance to proposed go-live dates
  • Evaluate, prioritize multiple clients’ needs internal and external of the business.
  • Keep abreast of business process changes and communicate these to all stakeholders.

Job Requirements

  • First degree in Computer Science or an IT equivalent degree
  • Practitioner Certificate in ITIL – IT Service Transition or equivalent certification
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in area of specialization with experience working with people
  • Experience in a medium organization
  • Experience IT Service Support and Delivery Experience
  • Experience in governance of enterprise information systems
  • Min 1 year Release Management Experience
  • Project management Experience
  • Experience in handling Release management issues
  • Experience working with a range of service
  • Provides Understanding of service delivery and service support environments.

 

Job Title: IT Infrastructure Specialist

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract

Job Description
We are in need of an IT infrastructure senior specialist to work in the following:

  • Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
  • Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
  • Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
  • Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
  • Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
  • Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
  • Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
  • Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
  • Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
  • Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.

Requirements
Education:

  • First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
  • Fluent in English
  • Masters advantageous.

Experience:

  • At least 8 years’ experience which includes:
    • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
    • Experience working in a medium to large organization
    • Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
    • Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
    • Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
    • Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
    • Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
    • Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
    • Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications

Cetifications:

  • Functional Skills Development
  • Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
  • COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
  • Secure Development
  • Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
  • Certified Governance Enterprise I
  • ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
  • ISO 27005 Risk management.

Deadline: 15th March, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in MS word format, current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com umoe@gvapartners.com idriso@gvapartners.com , okeyo@gvapartners.com with the Job Title as the subject of the mail.


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