2022 Compute and Storage Services Infrastructure Administrator (Rolling Intake)

About Metrobank Company

Metrobank is the Philippines’ second largest bank in terms of assets, trailing behind Banco de Oro. A group of Filipino entrepreneurs established the company in 1962 in Binondo, Manila. A year later its first branch was inaugurated in Divisoria. Come the 70s, the company expanded beyond the Philippine shores with its first international branch in Taipei. 

Your role

• Be trained in hardware and software support –  configuring resilient, secure architecture to ensure the success of the business.
• Work with various teams – enhance collaboration and tighter feedback loops across all teams.
• Be exposed to maintaining the system holding up the entire business.
• Setting up, configuring, maintaining, and operating a logical grouping of infrastructure components (i.e., server hardware, its operating system, and associated system utilities).
• Performance of system administration tasks like provisioning, patching, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Evaluation of upgrades or replacements to prevent the obsolescence of the infrastructure.
• Tuning activities to optimize the infrastructure performance.

Training, development & rotations

Metrobank offers training and guidance through the Metrobank Academy - a training certification policy for new hires with a structured plan customized for each position. Current employees cite Metrobank's comprehensive training system and support management teams to be one of its best benefits.  

Compensation & benefits

According to current employees, Metrobank offers attractive benefits, including a clothing allowance, medical allowance, mid-year bonus, CBA, 13th-month pay, and performance-based bonuses. To ensure salary competitiveness, Metrobank's compensation package is regularly reviewed and benchmarked against other banks through annual compensation and benefits surveys conducted by Towers Watson. 

Career progression

The Bank prioritizes a Metrobanker’s continuous career growth and personal development and so it has learning programs under the Metrobank Academy where employees can take online classes on different aspects of banking and finance. To further inspire Metrobankers to level up their educational attainment, those taking up postgraduate studies may apply for financial aid under the Metrobank Employees Graduate Assistance Program. Their tuition fee is subsidized per semester, allowing them to have savings that they can use for other school requirements.

Company culture

Through the Metrobank Academy, the company encourages ethical and behavioral skills to develop a culture of responsibility and accountability. While most employees are quick to comment about piling workloads, these very same workers claim to get by with the company’s friendly and understanding management and better-than-average compensation. 

About you

• Experience in system administration of different types of OS platforms (preferably Windows and Linux).
• Experience in system administration of virtualized environments (VMWare, Hyerv, and OVM).
• Knowledgeable in VMWare, HyperV, or OVM.
• Knowledgeable of advanced server setups like clustering, cloud transition, etc.
• Open to fresh graduates.
• With an IT background specializing in Computer Engineering.

How to apply

To apply for this position, simply click the “Apply” button on this page.

The company follows the standard recruitment process for most roles.

• Applicants are requested to apply online.
• Successful candidates will be called back within one to three weeks for an on-site examination on math, English, and abstract reasoning.
• Those who pass the exam get to move forward with a series of 1-on-1 interviews (former employees in Glassdoor noted two interviews: one with the HR department and another with their designated department head).
• The process may be more rigorous for higher roles with exams and interviews coming one after the other. 

Source/s:

• metrobank.com
• ph.prospel.com
• grabjobs.com