Job Opportunity for Senior Operations Engineer at Twinpine Nigeria

Twinpine is a mobile advertising network reaching millions of African consumers on mobile devices. We aggregate local and international mobile web pages on our platform to offer brands and advertisers a communication medium on the mobile internet. We create value for advertisers, publishers and developers by serving relevant, carefully- targeted adverts to mobile internet users using demographic targeting. We are currently present in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, India, UK and Mauritius.

Twinpine Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Operations Engineer

Job Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, implementation, and sustainment of the IT Operations Strategy for the business.
• Provide technical thought and design leadership in building a highly scalable and resilient IT infrastructure.
• Ensure IT Operational capabilities and priorities are aligned with all areas of the business.
• Drive the adoption and maturity of business critical IT Operational best practices, tooling, and processes.
• Exercise sound technical and business judge to position the technology platform for continued growth and extensibility.
• Create and maintain measurement criteria (KPI s) and system documentation to lead the effective management of the technology tooling and infrastructure that supports the business.
• Grow and share technical expertise within the team via mentoring and training of other Leads and Analysts and providing guidance to less experienced team members.
• Responsible for solutions and escalation handling of complex technical issues that impact the business.
• Defining program implementation strategy & multiyear roadmap to realize business value.
• Administer and support Hadoop clusters (including Hbase, Hadoop, EMR, S3)
• Development & enhancement of monitoring , tools to manage services and applications developed and used by the company
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Adatrix services by engineering reliability into software and systems
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems
• Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning and demand forecasting
• Perform periodic on-call duty.

Qualifications and Requirements

• BSC in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications or equivalent education
• 3+ years of experience in a project leader/program manager role focused on IT service management.

CORE

• Expertise in at least one data platform such as: SQL, Hadoop/HDFS, PL/SQL.
• Strong technical execution capacity in a language of choice: Perl, Python, Java, Ruby.
• Experience and strong understanding of web servers like APACHE / TOMCAT and hands on with web development.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems, shell scripting
• Understanding of network and Security will be highly desirable.

OTHERS

• PMP Certification - Preferred
• ITIL v3 foundation certification - Preferred.
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Process Management and Documentation Skills
• IT Change Management, Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery expertise
• Strong understanding of Configuration Management Tooling and Automation technologies.
• High levels of professionalism, communication, coordination and customer service principles are essential.

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Note:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application Deadline: 30th September, 2013