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.


APPLY HERE

Note:

  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


Application Deadline: 30th September, 2013