Technology Officer

We are hiring Technology Officer:Job Location: Valencia Town, LahoreTimings: 6pm-3am (Mon-Fri)Experience Required: 8 years plusAbout Umer & CompanyUmer & Company (Umerco) is an official IBM Business Partner. We sell IBM products and provide the support and maintenance that go with them, so our clients get premier solutions at preferred rates, along with the expertise to run them properly. Most of our work focuses on B2B and A2A integrations — connecting systems and trading partners so businesses spend less time on manual processes and more on the work that matters. We are a young company, and our Lahore office is staffed to support clients through U.S. business hours.Role & ResponsibilitiesWe are hiring a senior Technology Officer for our new Lahore office. This is an ownership role. You will decide what the office runs on, keep it running, and answer for it when something breaks. You will set standards, guide the support staff, prepare RFPs, deal with vendors and ISPs, and put clear options in front of management.What you will ownPower and backup: Inverters, UPS, generator and stabilizers, sized to real load and tested regularly.Internet stability: Multiple ISPs with automatic failover, alerting, and evidence based ISP escalation.Infrastructure: Racks, cabling and endpoints, plus servers, hypervisors, VMs, storage and Microsoft 365.Vendors and RFPs: Write the specification, compare quotes on total cost, and enforce service levels.Strategy and budget: A costed two or three year plan, with spend ranked by what it protects or unlocks.Security and upkeep: Patching, access reviews, tested restores, surveillance and access control, on a calendar.People and projects: Guide the support staff, run projects to scope, cost and date, flag slippage early.What we need from you8+ years in IT or system administration, including 2 years owning an environment or running an IT function.Hands-on with inverter, UPS and generator backed power, including load and runtime calculations.Networking on Cisco, MikroTik, UniFi or Huawei: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, VPN, firewalls, Wi-Fi.Servers and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox), plus Windows Server, Windows 10/11 and Active Directory.RFPs and vendor management, plus projects delivered to a scope, a cost and a date.A record of delivery you can talk through, leadership of juniors, and clear communication outside IT.DAE (CIT), BSIT, BSCS or related. CCNA, HCIA, CompTIA or Microsoft certifications preferred.How to applyDirect apply or send your resume at sameen.sajjad@umerco.com