Network Engineer Job at Tusen Consulting Limited

Tusen Consulting Limited (formerly Adecco Nigeria Limited) is an indigenous company established in Nigeria in 2002 by Adecco SA, a Forbes Global 500 company and worldwide industry leader. With a wealth of experience from our former parent company, we provide general HR solutions, including specialized staffing services. Tusen Consulting delivers an unparalleled range of flexible staffing and career resources to corporate clients and qualified associates.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Network Engineer
Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary 

• We are currently looking for a Network Engineer (L1) to support the business in achieving its strategic objectives.
• The Network Engineer (L1) is an entry level position in the Networking Engineers job family.
• Under the guidance of more CTO, they provide a service to clients to ensure that their IT infrastructure and systems remain operational through proactively identifying, investigating and resolving technical incidents and problems and to restore services to clients by managing incidents to resolution.
• Their primary objective is to ensure zero missed service level agreement conditions.
• The Network Engineer (L1) focuses on first line support for standard and low complexity incidents and maintains the Networking environmental and monitoring equipment.

Monitor Infrastructure:

• They ensure that assigned infrastructure at the client site is configured, installed, tested and operational. In this regard they will perform necessary checks, apply monitoring tools and respond to alerts.
• Where software is a component of the solution they will also take responsibility for ensuring that the software is installed and configured according to client requirements.

Identify Problems and Errors:

• The Network Engineer (L1) identifies problems and errors prior to or when they occur.
• He or she will log all such incidents in a timely manner with the required level of detail with all the necessary.
• They liaise with all stakeholders including client IT environments, vendors, carriers and Dimension Data colleagues to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.

Ensure Resolution of Incidents and Requests:

• They investigate first line support calls assigned to them and identify root cause of incidents and problems.
• They ensure that efficient and comprehensive resolution of incidents and requests.
• This could involve ensuring that repairs are carried out by coordinating product request and liaising with other team members.
• They will also report and escalate issues to 3rd party vendors if necessary.
• They take full ownership for managing the incident to resolution with the service level conditions.
• Where necessary, they escalate requests and exceptions to the 2nd line support team.
• They provide continuous feedback to clients and affected parties and update all systems and/or portals as prescribed by Dimension Data procedures.

Incident Management:

• When required they will take responsibility receiving calls and incidents at the services desk. They assist in analysing and escalating the support calls. They also provide telephonic support to clients where required.
• They update incidents with progress and resolution details.

Shift Management:

• Network Engineers (L1) that work shifts will be required to follow the required handover procedures for shift changes to ensure service continuity. They complete and maintain any shift handover schedules.

Reports:

• Network Engineers (L1) are also responsible for producing breach and other reports that are necessary for the correct operation of processes.
• They identify failures and short-comings in the current processes and escalate with recommendations.

Behavioural Skills:

• Network Engineers (L1) are required to strictly comply with all processes and procedures as prescribed by Dimension Data and the client when relevant.
• They display a strong client service orientation and strive to meet and exceed SLAs at all times.
• Their ability to communicate well and to capture all pertinent details when required will contribute to their success.

What We Expect You to Do
In this position you will be required to:

• Monitor infrastructure remotely.
• Ensure that the assigned infrastructure at the client is configured, installed, tested and operational.
• Investigate first line support calls assigned and identify the root cause of incidents and problems.
• Ensure the efficient and comprehensive resolution of incidents and requests.
• Report and escalate issues to 3rd party vendors if necessary.
• Provide telephonic support to clients when required and update the relevant systems as per Dimension Data procedures.
• Perform the necessary hand over procedures in cases where shift work is required.
• Produce breach and other reports to identify failures and short-comings.

Qualifications
Here's what we are looking for in candidates for this job:

• Secondary School qualification
• Diploma in IT
• CCNA/A+/N+: MCSE or relevant qualification.

Experience:

• 2 – 4 years of working experience
• At least 2 years of ‘hands-on’ IT experience supporting and resolving diverse desktop software and hardware issues
• At least 2 years’ experience supporting Windows based operating systems
• VPN troubleshooting experience.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: tamara.taqfiri@tusenconsulting.com using the Job position as the subject of the mail.