Job Description
Main Purpose:
Ensuring continuous operation and maintenance of IT Enterprise Applications to provide uninterrupted, high-quality service.
MTN Uganda Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is seeking to recruit a competent individual to fill the following position.
Job Title: Engineer – Big Data Operations
Reports to: Manager – Information Management Operations
No. of Vacancies: 1
Main Job Functions:
- Ensuring continuous operation and maintenance of IT Enterprise Applications to provide uninterrupted, high-quality service
- Backing up and restoring data as per company policy.
- Ensuring that all data stored in the Data Lake is complete and remains at rest.
- Service data requests from internal and external stakeholders in line with the company data privacy policies.
- Executing primary control checks of Data completeness and Data Quality in the Data Lake.
- Supporting secondary and tertiary controls and tracking same with the relevant teams till closure.
- Coordinate with Multiple teams and vendors to ensure all data streams are pushing-to or receiving data from the Data Lake as per the agreed frequencies.
- Ensure the Business KPis are delivered on time within the SLAs.
- Resolve incidents and Work Orders surrounding the Data Lake as per SLAs
- Support Business Analysts on queries or changes on EVA.
- Proactive monitoring of EVA and EMM to ensure High uptime.
- Reprocessing via EMM and Repushing CDRs, EDRs, Logs, from Archive-server to the requesting downstreams
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
Work Experience
- 2 years’ experience in the area of specialisation
- Experience specific to software development and maintenance of applications
- Experience specific to UNIX shell scripting, Database programming
Skills / physical competencies:
- Database Management Skills – Oracle, SQL server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop
- Shell scripting/Programming
- Unix/ Linux System administration
- Basic IP networking knowledge
- Information Management
- Analytical thinking
- Reporting
- Project planning and control
- Supporting Enterprise Applications.
- System Analysis, Design, and Integration
- UNIX shell scripting