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Network Administrator
About this role
Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited in Lagos is recruiting a Network Administrator. The role involves managing and maintaining the company’s network infrastructure to ensure reliable, secure, and efficient connectivity across locations. The successful candidate will monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, support security initiatives, and collaborate with IT staff and vendors to sustain a stable IT environment.
What you would do
- Configure and maintain switches, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, VPNs and other network devices.
- Manage LAN, WAN, WLAN and internet connectivity across locations.
- Implement VLANs, IP addressing, routing, DHCP, DNS and related services.
- Monitor network performance, availability and capacity.
- Document and label network infrastructure and maintain configurations.
- Proactively monitor for issues and resolve connectivity, performance or access problems.
- Coordinate with ISPs and vendors for outages or escalations; perform root-cause analysis.
- Support network security controls including firewall rules, VPNs and segmentation.
- Plan and participate in network infrastructure projects and upgrades.
- Maintain up-to-date network diagrams, IP schedules, device inventories and change documentation.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering or related field.
- 3-5 years' experience in network administration or infrastructure support.
- Practical experience with enterprise networks, routers, switches, firewalls, wireless networks, VPNs, VLANs, DHCP, DNS and IP networking.
- Experience troubleshooting network connectivity and performance issues.
- Experience working with ISPs and technology vendors.
- Professional certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, Fortinet NSE/FCP, Sophos, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ are advantageous.
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