IT Specialist vacancy

IT Specialist vacancy
IBM - Kenya
Job description
Provide project leadership in the IT Operations group to guide and direct implementation of infrastructure, systems, applications and technical integration activities. The individual will be responsible for managing project resources, planning, scheduling and monitoring for achieving successful implementations of key infrastructure and IT Operations components of business application initiatives.
Organize, manage, and lead multiple project implementations in a fast-paced IT environment across multiple functional teams.

• Manage and perform implementation of technical solutions, applications and systems.
  

• Lead infrastructure, technical system and application implementation discussions with technical engineers, contractors and vendors.
  

• Provide oversight and direction to implementation team to ensure the deployment meets the project specs and requirements.
  

• Develop integration plans using multiple vendor products.
  

• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional team resolving technical troubleshooting.
  

• Act as a technical liaison with all business partners, vendors and stakeholders.
  

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure managing large scale infrastructure project implementation including servers, networks, SAN and NAS, databases, data warehousing and enterprise applications.
  

• Extensive work experience in data centers build out and migration supporting different environments: dev/test, QA, staging and production, etc.
  

• Experience in virtualization technology implementation for IT infrastructure and IT enterprise applications.
  

• Extensive experience in project/program management, procurement, resource management, scheduling, planning, deployment, support and training including experience in working within PMO, Change Management and Governance types of environments.
  

• Excellent understanding of process management, improvement practices, change management process, operation services.
  

• Excellent training and presentation skills with solid communication capabilities and practices, both oral and written.
  

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cross functionally with other leaders.
  

• 5+ years experience in a technical project/program management role managing cross functional projects, end-to-end implementation and deployment.
  Required
  

• Bachelor's Degree
  
• At least 5 years experience in Business controls, time management and ability to multi task
  
• English: Fluent
  

Preferred

• Engineering
  
• At least 8 years experience in Business controls, time management and ability to multi task

Additional information
10+ years overall work experience in the technical industry preferably in IT/ Technical Operations organizations in supporting worldwide enterprise infrastructure, systems and applications.

• Experience working in a global environment, leading teams located in multiple regions.
  Minimum 10 years’ experience, supporting large scale enterprises and delivering small to mid-size IT Projects.
  

• IT certification (ITIL) or equivalent preferred.
  

• PMP Certification preferred.
  
  IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
  

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