Application Support Analyst at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC)

Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC), one of the largest distribution companies in Nigeria seeks the services of young School Certificate holders as it moves to deepen technical expertise in the sector through sustainable human capital development. We have openings for energetic, enthusiastic and talented individuals to join our team across a range of technical roles. Considering the breadth of the opportunities available, school certificate holders in science related courses will have added advantage.

We expect candidates to be innovative and have the highest level of integrity.
Successful candidates will be trained on the job and be part of the team that will change the face of the Power Sector in Nigeria through innovation and sustainable knowledge transfer

Overview of Role:

To provide high quality operational and technical application and systems support to IKEDC’s customers and internal business functions

Accountabilities

Infrastructure Support 70%

    Provide Tier 3 application support on complex internally and externally developed applications

    Administer and maintain all production and internal environments

    Application monitoring,performance tuning and testing

    Maintain system stability and high availability

    Interact with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

    Manage problems from identification through to deployment

    Applying database and operating system upgrades and updates

    Deploy application releases and configuration changes

    Develop implementation, backup and roll-back plans

    Act as a technical resource for internal and external projects

    Adhere to appropriate departmental and company procedures and policies(i.e. change control, security and auditing, release, configuration, problem and incident management)

    Maintain good working relationships with internal departments as well as third-party vendors and hosting providers

Personal and Team Development 20%

    Share/spread knowledge with team members as well as internal teams(client services,service desk,development)

    Pro-active in maintaining and increasing the teams and your own technical knowledge

    Identify training needs or requirements for yourself individually and for the team

Documentation 10%

    Ensure incidents and problems are up-to-date

    Ensure release and configuration request are up-to-date with appropriate and backup plans

    Ensure all technical and non-technical documentation are up-to-date

Knowledge & Key Skills

Personal Qualities

    Strong customer service and support focus with a desire to deliver a high quality service

    Self-motivated and highly professional with ability to take owner ship and responsibility

    Ability to multi-task,work under pressure and to tight deadlines

    A desire to learn and improve skills and knowledge

    Fastlearner, energetic and enthusiastic

    Adaptable and flexible to business demands

    Positive‘can-do’attitude

    Team player

Functional Skills and Experiences

    3+years’experience in an hands-on application support lead/manager role

    Extensive problem solving and debugging skills

    Ability to independently apply production upgrades and support the products and technologies

    Experience in providing services to agreed SLA’s and OLA’s

    Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills

    Flexible in working out side of core business hours at short-notice

Technical Skills and Experiences

    3+ years’ experience in administering Linux and Windows 2008 Server environments

    Experience with supporting multi-tier infrastructures

    3+ years’ experience in supporting and administering Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS

    Experience in supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Application and Web Servers

Desirable

    Oracle Database Administration

    Scripting(Perl, VBScript)

    Technical degree/qualification

    ITIL Problem Management Certification

Critical Success Factors

    Achieving high levels of user satisfaction

    Demonstration of ownership of problems

    Measured contribution towards the reduction of aged problems

    Measured contribution towards maintaining a level of expectations with customers internally/externally for services provided

    System availability meets agreed SLA

    Incidents and problems are resolved within OLA and SLA

    Delivering projects within agreed time frames

    Compliance with departmental procedures and policies

Contact Purpose

Infrastructure Analysts

Knowledge sharing,troubleshooting issues,planning application releases and system changes,communicating resolutions and updates.

IKEDC Staff

All staff meetings,answering queries,troubleshooting and escalating issues,communicating resolutions and updates,technical resource on projects/implementations

IT Infrastructure Team Lead

Individual and team meetings.

Customers

Technical escalation point,troubleshooting issues,testing,communicating updates/progress

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