Information Technology Team Lead

Job Purpose:The role holder is responsible for implementing projects and plans for IT infrastructure, providing the cutting-edge technology that fits the organization scale and size and supports business requirements. Responsibilities include provision of tools and solutions to enable business growth and meet SAR requirements with efficiency and effectiveness. The role holder shall carry out his duties in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedures.Core Responsibilities:Ensures user and access administration activities on designated systems and applications, in accordance with the defined policies, standards and procedures.Ensures installation and configuration of security systems and applications (like network security appliances and host-based security systems) along with assessing policy and compliance tools.Benchmarks data center activities with international best practices in order to suit SAR’s needs and requirements.Monitor the network and security logs, systems and traffic) to ensure confidentiality, continuity and availability of the IT services.Ensures and monitors daily reporting on servers, storage and backup performance.Ensures implementation of information security, operations and activities to ensure protection of information assets while ensuring optimal use of personnel and equipment.Ensures monitoring, operation, support and maintenance for IT data network Infrastructure.Investigates and resolve security violations by providing postmortem analysis to illuminate the issues and possible solutions.Develops and ensures services in response to various risks and threats.Maintains the infrastructure and security systems being deployed at SAR.Monitor the network and security logs and systems to insure confidentiality, continuity and availability of the IT services.Manages and implements security awareness programs throughout SAR.Leads disaster recovery projects designed specifically for evaluating application of technologies.Performs data recovery capacity planning with other IT Department’s current, planned and new initiatives with a major focus on proactively ensuring an adequate recovery network and IT processing environment.Basic Qualification:Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information TechnologyExperience:A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years in a similar role