MainOne Cable is a leading facilitator and preferred provider of innovative telecom services and network solutions such as Connectivity and Data Center Solutions to Telecom operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), other businesses and Government institutions across West Africa.

MainOne Cable’s success is built on having talented and highly proficient people within their respective fields as the driving force behind our business. A job in MainOne is different from any other you have had. With joining MainOne you’ll be challenged, inspired and proud as you become a part of something big.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Network Performance Analyst

Location: Lagos
Department: Technical
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

• Apply highly developed inductive reasoning skills to provide a proactive approach to potential network Operating System or hardware Failure.
• Create custom alert schema, reports and custom dashboards
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential failure/threats to network resources
• Provide relevant key performance information to aid network planning and operations
• Add network Context, eliminate noise and false positives, and develop trends and data models
• Performing root cause analysis of Network OS and hardware failures using Logs
• Provide relevant log data to aid troubleshooting and resolving of network issues.
• Explore existing knowledge base and make recommendation to improve systems, solutions and processes
• Identify and validate new log sources, search through indexed data and develop methods to improve data mining, analysis, and reporting.
• Gather and accumulate data from disparate sources, clean it, organize it, process it, and analyze it to extract valuable insights and information.
• Identify new sources of data and develop methods to improve data mining, analysis, and reporting.
• Validate log sources and indexed data, search through indexed data to optimize search criteria
• Present the findings in reports (in table, chart, or graph format) to help the Network Planning and management team in the decision-making process.
• Create data definitions for new database files or alterations made to the already existing ones for analysis purposes.
• Keep track of the trends and correlational patterns among complex data sets.
• Perform routine analysis tasks to support day-to-day network functions and decision making.
• Work closely and collaboration with other network team and the business management team to accomplish company goals

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 5 years experience
• Relevant professional/technical certifications in Big Data/Hadoop/SIEM
• Good presentation skills
• Relationship Management skills
• Time & self-management skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Good knowledge of networking technologies
• Hands on experience in Big data analytics, SIEM and syslogs operations
• Should be able to script in any language but preferably python
• Ability to develop relational databases for sourcing and collecting data and write SQL queries to extract data is an added advantage
• Service provider experience in technologies with syslog applications preferably Splunk

Demands of the Job:

• Time & self management skills
• Relationship Management
• Team work
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to work well under pressure

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.