Critical Infrastructure Resilience Company (CIRC) specialises in highly advanced, enterprise technology solutions and an aggregator of innovative, data driven, end-toend platforms addressing the technology gap in security, safety, payments, and corporate operations.

CIRC is a global leader in truly innovative engineering, supported by strong partnerships and a global reach, offering solutions and services aimed at reducing the risks faced by operators of essential services. We provide meaningful intelligence to our customers allowing for timely response to the market and economic vitals Daily maintenance of an organization’s IT Systems and Services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Application Support Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The job description entails managing and coordinating information technology operations to ensure delivery of timely and effective IT services.
• Investigation and analysis of user problems and application bugs and subsequent problem resolution and technical testing of patches.
• Working with the Engineering and delivery teams to ensure Quality and effective implementation of projects and changes maintaining maximum uptime of production.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing maintenance plans per application and carry out the maintenance of applications, re-configuring, building, and testing components in accordance with OLAs and SLAs.
• Code applications in accordance with good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities.
• Create and execute/coordinate technical test plans for application change, new deployment, and upgrades.
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture components to the testers.
• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing.
• Continuous monitoring of Service Performance to ensure maximum service availability
• Effective management of changes to minimize service disruption and maximize service availability and quality
• Effectively work with other dependent teams such as Vendors, Service Management, Security team, Delivery and Engineering team, other Operations teams.
• Provide information timely for Audits and Security requests and ensure any gaps raised are closed
• Effective access controls to supported systems.
• Broad knowledge of the business processes within the Telecommunications sector.
• Specialized knowledge of IT support procedures, application construction, hardware technologies, systems integration, and development techniques.
• ITIL standards
• Automate application interfaces and manual activities
• Explore scheduling techniques and tools to overcome application dependencies
• Analyse incidents to identify hot spots or underpinning problems – implement solution
• Automate business and system processes to improv productivity and efficiency.
• Work with other developers, designers, and architects to make sure that the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2 to 3 years of experience in IT Development or IT Operations
• UNIX shell Scripting
• Experience working in a medium or large organization.
• Working knowledge of:
  • Project management principles, Agile principles, and general technical management
  • Broad knowledge base of application development using an array of application development tools (Java or C# or Python, HTML2, JavaScript, JSON, XML, RESTful APIs, SOAP webservices)
  • Service Monitoring
  • Application development lifecycles
  • User Requirements analysis standards and methods
  • DEVOPS Practices and Tools
  • Managing Cloud Services and Licenses
• PL/SQL and RDBMS knowledge.

Functional Competencies:

• Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Customer Satisfaction Measurement
• Planning and Organising
• Performance Improvement
• Project Delivery
• Software Development (JAVA, C# or Python, HTML2, JavaScript, RESTful API, SOAP webservices, JSON, XML)
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Design & Integration
• Systems Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Relationship Management
• Change Management
• Incident Management
• Problem Management.

Application Closing Date
26th December, 2022.