Network Performance Analyst at MainOne Cable Nigeria Full Time

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.