Job Vacancies at A Federal Government Agency

The following immediate vacancies exist in Abuja for experienced IT professionals
Salary is highly competitive and depends on the experience of Applicants
No hard copy applications will be entertained.
Only short-listed vacant candidates will be contacted

DATA CENTER FACILITIES MANAGER (Ref code: ANON/DCM/3901)
Job Requirements
University Degree in Engineering or related field
5 years proven knowledge of modern data center management, current building design (basic understanding), capacity design, construction, fit-out, security and data center operations including organizational planning, staffing, budgeting and maintenance.
Experience in working with large global organizations and knowledge of green data center design would be an advantage

ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS ENGINEER (Ref code: ANON/EPSE/3902)
Job Requirements
• University degree in Electrical Engineering (with Power Engineering or Controls option) from an accredited engineering school, and 5 years of direct relevant engineering experience.
• A Masters degree from an accredited engineering school with no years of direct relevant engineering experience stands an equal chance.

INFORMATION SECURITY SPECIALIST (Ref code: ANON/ ISS/3903)
Job Requirements
• B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5 years experience in Information security operations and access control, 4 years experience in Information security service delivery.
• ITIL Foundation Certification is required while CISA, CISSP, CISM, GIAC or other recognized security certifications will be an added advantage.

SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST (Ref code: ANON/ SBSA/ 3904)
Job requirements
• Post graduate degree in business administration with a specialization in Management Information systems.
• 5+ years experience analyzing business information systems including work experience in complex, heterogeneous database and application environments.
• Experience and understanding of SDlC methodology is required, including extensive experience driving development of functional and non-functional requirements, use of case centered requirements, process modeling and re-engineering, user acceptance testing and large-scale system development/deployment.
• Practical experience of implementation methodologies in an enterprise technology adoption project is a necessity.

SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR - ORACLE (Ref code: ANON/SDAj3905)
Job requirements
• Bachelor or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field.
• Minimum of 7 years proven experience as a production DBA and 3 years experience as a development DBA working with Oracle on Unix Platforms.
• Proven experience of database planning, installation and configuration, tuning, backup and recovery. security in both a development and production environment. Professional training and certifications in the relevant Oracle technologies would be highly advantageous.
• Experience working with very large databases in high availability environments would be highly advantageous.

SENIOR DATABASE DEVELOPER (Ref code: ANON/SDD /3906)
Job requirements
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science will be preferred
• 5 years experience working with very large databases in both production and development environments developing database applications and supporting technologies.
• Technical proficiency in Oracle 10g-11g, PL/SQL, PL/SQL and SQL tuning, Oracle Development Toolsets (TOAD, PL/SQL Developer. etc.), multithreading techniques, parallel query, Oracle Stored Java and Oracle Database Application Development

SENIOR NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR (Ref code: ANON/SNA/3907)
Job Requirements
• Bachelor or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field.
• Minimum of 7 years proven experience in planning, deployment, management and support of large heterogeneous enterprise networks in LAN, METRO Fiber and Enterprise WAN environments.
• Candidate must have a thorough understanding of all the major networking technologies and protocols.
• Experience of setting up and operating of nationwide VPNs and Network Operations Centers would be an added advantage. .

SENIOR SOFTWARE ARCHITECT (Ref code: ANON/SSA/3908)
• Strong computer science background
• Masters in Computer Science is highly preferred
• 10 years of core software development experience in commercial software development companies, proven experience in designing and architecting large-scale enterprise products,
• Java/ J2EE experience with a deep understanding of end-to-end n-tier enterprise software architectures.
• Extensive experience with development and the concepts of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), client server computing architectures, distributed computing architectures

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (Ref code: ANON/SSD /3909)
Job Requirements
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience, Masters Degree preferred.
• 10 or more years programming experience is required, deep knowledge of software architecture/technical architecture, multi-tier application architecture and development, SQl, RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, and programming in 3GL and 4GL languages.
• Understanding of design and programming patterns, test driven development and other development methodologies.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR - Unix, AIX (Ref code: ANON/SSAD/3910)
Job Requirements
• Bachelor or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field.
• Should have a minimum of 5 years proven experience administering Unix/AIX/Linux systems in a heterogynous environment.
• Experience deploying and administering enterprise servers in High Availability Configurations, Deploying and administering enterprise middleware and web servers is a must. Certification in any of flavor of Unix would be highly advantageous.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST (Ref code: ANON/SSA/3911)
Job Requirements
• Bachelor's or Post Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related Engineering Field.
• 5 years experience in analysis, design, development and implementation of complex information systems
• Experience of software architectures, scripting languages, database technologies, structured query languages, message queue systems, and the major 2GL, 3GLand 4GL programming languages is a must.
• Thorough understanding of the Software development lifecycle and software development methodologies is required
• Hands on Experience working on the various stages in the software development life cycle.

SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER (Ref code: ANON/SWD /3912)
Job Requirements
• Bachelor Or Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD would be an added advantage).
• 7 years experience in developing enterprise applications for the web, experience of EJBs, and other server-side web technologies is a must
• Experience of application servers, frameworks, portals and portlet development is a must.
• Proven proficiency with crossbrowser, cross-platform issues and web standards, in-depth knowledge of SQl and proven , expertise in relational database design and integration, expertise in front-end web development tools including JavaScript/CSS and other web 2.0 technologies will be highly beneficial.
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures would be an added advantage

STORAGE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR (Ref code: ANON/ STSA/3913)
Job Requirements
• Bachelor Or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field.
• Minimum of 5 years proven experience In Unix/AIX/Linux systems administration.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in deploying, configuring and maintaining enterprise storage solutions.
• Experience of EMC, Storage Tek and IBM Tape Storage systems is a must.

SYSTEMS / NETWORK SECURITY SPECIALIST (Ref code: ANON/SSS/3914)
Job Requirements
• Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field with specialization in Information Systems Security.
• 5 years experience in Information Security operations and access control, electronic encryption, key management, smartcards, ecommerce and secure EDI Training and certifications In Secure+, CISA and CISSP would be highly advantageous.
• Experience with UNIX (Sun as, Solaris, NeXT), Windows 200x, desktop operating systems are a must.

Application process
Interested candidates should apply now
Please note that no hand written or e-mailed applications will be considered. Questions and comments should be sent to: outsourcing@chapda.com

Closing Date: 7th April 2009.