Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Title

Systems and storage Manager

Business

Job Purpose

Take overall responsibility of systems and storage, management and development within ENOC to ensuring secure and reliable running of all systems and storage components to maintain a high quality and availability for the systems services.

Principal Accountabilities

Strategy/Governance

Manage the maintenance and support of all aspects related to systems and storage infrastructure landscape to ensure seamless, secure, effective and efficient operation for all systems components within ENOC.

Ensure the timely provision of data and reports to IT Infrastructure Services Senior Manager , recommend systems and storage operational improvements to support planning, vision and decision making to have continuous improvement of IT infrastructure services.

Play a significant role in long-term systems and storage strategy and planning, including initiatives geared toward operational excellence.

Operational

Manage systems and storage team productivity to achieve the agreed department / function KPI

Manage the development of systems and storage maintenance SOP s to ensure that systems and storage controls, policies, and procedures are operating effectively.

Take a lead to provide immediate fix whenever system and storage incidents are identified or reported.

Contribute to the development of appropriate IT security policies, processes, systems, standards, procedures and internal controls related to systems and storage servers in line with the corporate IT Security framework.

Identify and assess security risks and assist in implementing measures to manage and mitigate all identified risks and audit findings.

Responsible for systems and storage backups and recovery, scheduled jobs.

Involvement in any new project implementation during project lifecycle (Dev, QC, UAT, Production).

Proactively monitor the delivery of systems and storage services according to approved policies and procedures, user requests, SLA s, and maintenance schedules with minimum downtime.

Responsible to apply latest related security patches and bug fixes as soon as released by vendor.

Ensure that all systems and storages implementations that we support are secure, reliable, cost effective and fit for purpose.

Develop and maintain a documented road map for the systems and storage products that we support, ensuring that these plans are understood and followed by members of the team.

Liaise with other IT Service managers in a highly technical and sensitive environment to gain buy in for proposed architectures and technology.

Work closely with suppliers, and 3rd parties to ensure systems and storage industry best practices followed to deliver systems solutions efficiently and effectively.

closely working with IT infrastructure Service managers to ensure that specific systems solution designs meet the requirements and best practice developed and applied.

Maintain systems and storage inventory for production, QC, DEV, UAT systems.

Any special assignment from line manager or IT senior management.

Financial Management

Provide inputs into the GIT annual budget related to systems and storage services

Contribute to the related business cases, ROI and TCO for systems and storage technology investments.

People and Talent Management

Manage team productivity to achieve the set KPI and service levels.

Enhance and develop the team knowledge, skills, and performance.

Manage systems and storage team to ensure coverage for in-hours and out of hours support is maintained.

Work with other IT infrastructure Service managers to develop mutual understanding of each area and develop methods of cooperation and support to achieve infrastructure department objectives.

Additional Principal Accountabilities

Experience

Education

Degree: Minimum Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business field or equivalent

Having related professional Industry certifications will be a plus as well as project management certifications such as PRINCE II, PMP, etc.

Preferred professional certifications: ITIL v4

Solid understanding of systems and storage security concept and requirements

Working knowledge of windows AD, DNS, HTTP/s, SSH, LDAP, DHCP, etc.

Strong understanding of TCP/IP, FW, networking protocols and security concepts.

Experience

12+ years of IT infrastructure experience with a focus on systems and storage security concept.

Strong knowledge and experience in systems and storage design, deployment, backup, recovery and management experience are highly desirable

Proven experience with systems and storage capacity planning, security principles, and management best practices

Strong knowledge and experience in IT infrastructure concepts, frameworks and standards

Strong knowledge and experience in systems and storage performance management and tuning, security hardening and availability

Strong knowledge and experience in systems installations, upgrades, high availability in existing and new environment.

Work effectively under occasional high stress 24x7 on call conditions.

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Strong experience in automation tools related to Database management

Desired Candidate Profile

Minimum Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business field or equivalent