GB JOBS: Senior Operations Engineer Needed At Twinpine Network

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.

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 onIT 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

Interested Qualified applicants should forward their CVs and cover letter within 2 weeks of this publication to careers@twinpinenetwork.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.