Terragon Limited - An Integrated New Media and Mobile Content company based in Lagos, Nigeria with presence in Ghana, Kenya, India, UK and Mauritius currently seeks to employ a VAS SUPPORT ENGINEER. The Group prides itself as a new media business focused on Africa. It has built a strong competence across the new media ecosystem comprising mobile, online and content.

Job Title: VAS Support Engineer

Job Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate, schedule and follow up on all main actions linked to the VAS platform; Analyse periodically all events on the network, in order to establish corrective actions.
  • Conceptualize, design and monitor procedures to manage all VAS platforms; preparation/ analysis of Logs (Short codes, SMS, Blast, etc)
  • Develop documentation process and procedures for managing VAS network and provide the necessary information required for implementation
  • Planning/ implementation of systems and network checklists- perform engineering level network planning and design for all VAS platforms
  • Develop a global security plan to ensure safety of data and access to the platform
  • Ensure systems/ servers are always up, running and backed up
  • Design and implement systems capable of processing millions of request simultaneously without failing.
  • Perform engineering level optimization of apache, mysql and server resources to ensure optimal performance of current infrastructures.
  • Attend to all TVL issues, complains, problems etc on the VAS platforms


Qualifications

  • A first degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or Electronic, Telecommunications and any Physical science
  • Minimum of 1 year experience in VAS solutions.
  • Familiar with telecommunication technology architecture
  • Familiar with VPN, SMSC, MMSC, SMPP, Short codes.
  • Planning, analytical and project management skills
  • Domain name, service configuration and management; antivirus management and firewall configuration
  • Programming skills (PHP, C,C++ and / Java); Operating systems/Database : Red-Hat Linux (Shell Scripting), Oracle DB, SQL)
  • Experience with UNIX/Linux system administration and web server configuration.
  • Very strong technical background with a flair for technology management;
  • Knowledge of VAS platforms, Linux, scripting or programming capabilities
  • Linux certifications will be a very strong advantage
  • Familiar with VAS equipment and platform (exposure to the kannel gateway an added advantage)


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Application Deadline: 28 November, 2013.