Senior IT Specialist Job at IBM Nigeria

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Job Title: Senior IT Specialist

Employer:  International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation

Job ID: GTS-0582623   

Job type: Full-time Regular

Work country: Nigeria

Position type: Professional

Work city: – Any

Travel: 25% travel annually

Job area: IT & Telecommunications (non consulting)

Business group: Global Technology Services

Job category: Technical Services

Business unit: TSS:

Job role: Client Infrastructure Specialist

Job role skillset: General

Commissionable/Sales-Incentive jobs only: No      

Job description:

•   Perform IT Specialist job role and must have expertise in managing and operation of IT hardware, software, communications, and/or application solutions, and the resources required to plan for, develop, deliver, and

•   support properly engineered IT services and products to meet the needs of a business. The scope of this job role includes preparation for new or changed services, management of the change process, and maintenance of regulatory, legal, and professional standards, management of performance of systems and services in relation to their contribution to business performance, and management of bought-in services including, for example, public network, virtual private network, and outsourced services. Typical examples of the deliverables are service-level reporting, risk, and contingency planning. IT Specialists would apply their technical skills to support the operation and maintenance of vendor products, services, and solutions. Individuals who are part of Support typically have responsibility for sizing, troubleshooting, and critical customer situations. The employee focuses on individual/team/department/ operational objectives.

•   The applicant are accountable to ensure a high level of client satisfaction with Service delivery, technical support and operational services by taking all the possible actions to avoid that a client perceived problem or irritation will become a critical situation, putting at risk his/her satisfaction and loyalty. If a technical critical situation occurs, they are the IBM interface to clients and manage the situation until the problem is fixed.

•   They have a thorough understanding of, and are able to articulate, IBM's technical support strategy, particularly as it relates to base and enhanced support. They are responsible for the technical value relationship by providing expertise to protect revenue base and identify new services opportunities.

Required:

•   Bachelor's Degree

•   At least 4 years experience in Analyzing Software related Problems and Situations

•   At least 4 years experience in on at least one major platform or product group covered by IBM

•   At least 4 years experience in technical background (former experience), preferably service delivery

•   At least 4 years experience in AIX, TSM, Copy services such as global, metro mirroring, Linux, etc would be main requirements).

•   At least 4 years experience in Good client "management/communication" skills

•   English: Fluent

Preferred:

•   At least 7 years experience in Analyzing Software related Problems and Situations

•   At least 7 years experience in on at least one major platform or product group covered by IBM

•   At least 7 years experience in technical background (former experience), preferably service delivery

•   At least 7 years experience in AIX, TSM, Copy services such as global, metro mirroring, Linux, etc would be main requirements).

•   At least 7 years experience in Good client "management/communication" skills

Additional information: The applicant will provide technical assistance and account management advice to less experienced personnel. They plan for, and execute, hardware services activities and assist in software services activities including systems assurance, installation planning, account management, systems-level problem determination, installations, discontinuance, relocation, diagnosis, etc. for IBM and non-IBM systems.

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