Network & Telecom Team Lead

Job description / Role

Our client is a leading financial foreign exchange company. They are currently recruiting a Network & Telecom Team Lead for their office in Bahrain

Duties & Responsibilities

The job holder is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of both logical and physical systems, hardware and software security where related infrastructure and information is stored. This individual leads and participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation in the security of the relevant systems.

This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners.

• Leads the administration of the production systems infrastructure, network and applications security.
• Configure, create and alter firewall configurations and rule bases.
• Configure, create and alter switch configurations and routing information.
• Configure, create and alter router configurations and rule bases.
• Review all security logs of Wintel servers on a daily basis.
• Review access logs on a weekly basis (2Connect, local Server Room).
• Review logs whereby Elevated privileges have been used on all server environments.
• Ensure that all IT equipment are tagged and updated on the asset inventory system.
• Work closely with Change Management to ensure that all changes are logged and carried out as planned.
• Perform testing of system changes to ensure systems security is not degraded by any changes.
• Document daily procedures and manuals.
• Explore industry best practice to IT operations and controls to be assessed by Audit function.

Requirements

• Relevant industry qualifications, CCNA, CCNP, relevant Microsoft qualifications.
• Minimum 3 years related work experience
• Must have experience in Firewall, Switch and Router configurations (CCNA minimum)
• Excellent knowledge of DNS, DHCP, AD, VPN, TCP/IP,
• Excellent knowledge of Active Directory Group Policy management and hardening.

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions:

• Banking & Finance
• Human Resources
• Oil & Gas
• Construction
• Architecture & Engineering