Fresher Network Management Administrator IT Careers – Stanbic Bank
Job Title: Network Management Administrator
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
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 Management Administrator will provide technical support to the Stanbic Uganda voice & data infrastructure
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Configure various network devices & communication equipment such as switches & routers as per the GROUP standards.
- 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 & coordinate 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.
- Respond to technical calls assigned to the team in a professional and expeditious manner.
- Ensure compliance with change procedures in day to day network operations.
- Work closely 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 s Service 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.
- 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 applicant for the Stanbic Bank Network Management Administrator job should hold a University (or equivalent) degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
- Two years of professional experience as a LAN/WAN engineer in a large and complex IT enterprise environment (50+ servers). These should include 1 year of hands-on configuration, administration and troubleshooting experience of LAN switches, routers and firewall devices.
- Experience in CISCO products
- Experience in LAN traffic and WAN bandwidth monitoring tools.
- Experience with the application and integration of QoS, encryption and compression over WAN links.
- Practical experience in information security, including vulnerability testing and security assessments.
- Experience in IT service management and delivery based on ITIL service
- Thorough knowledge of LAN technologies (switches, routers, wireless and firewalls) including centralized monitoring and management in large-scale, high-availability environments;
- 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;
- Knowledge of LAN traffic management techniques;
- Understanding of core Internet routing protocols and services
How to Apply:
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.
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