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The launch of 24-hour Arabic language breaking news channel Sky News Arabia on May 6, 2012 is set to reach television households across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region following the signing of distribution deals with a number of premium television platforms, including OSN and the Abu Dhabi TV Network in High Definition and the EtisalateLife TV and du IPTV platforms in Standard Definition.

Job Description
Key Function:
To sell, renew and upgrade OSN subscription packages to potential customers from sales counters, whilst representing the company in a professional manner, providing answers/solutions to all points of enquiry.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• To sell, renew and upgrade OSN packages, providing customers with a wide range of product knowledge, packages and programming options to serve their viewing needs.
• Must achieve monthly individual targets assigned by Line Manager.
• To follow up on potential customers and aim to up-sell higher packages to existing customers.
• To ensure set KPI’s are achieved by implementing and adhering to business rules and requirements.
• To complete customer subscription contracts in detail and pass to relevant parties to process.
• Responsible to maintain the general housekeeping of each sales counter.
Skills
• Minimum of 1 year sales experience.
• English communication skills are essential.
• Willing to work shifts, weekends and public holidays.
• Sales driven and target orientated.
• Confident, presentable and possessing a professional attitude.
• Ability to work unsupervised and use own initiative.
• Ability to approach and deal with people at all levels.
• Basic IT skills essential.
• Self motivated and good decision maker.
•Good problem solving skills.
•Team player

Sky News Arabia, the 24-hour Arabic language multi-platform breaking news service, will launch on 6th May, 2012. The channel, which promises 'a new horizon' for news reporting across the Arab world, will be available on Transponder 14 on Arabsat Badr 4, Transponder 15 on Nilesat 201, on du IPTV and e-Life platforms plus in high definition on the OSN pay-TV platform.

Job Description
Key Function:
Responsible of OSN Servers, Data Centre technologies, Virtualisation, SAN, NAS setup and Microsoft products including Exchange Server, Windows Servers.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Responsible for technical maintenance of all the server hardware and the operating system platform.
• Responsible for implementing, monitoring and controlling information security policies. Assist Systems Manager in developing the information security policies of the company.
• Responsible for IT aspect of business continuity and disaster recovery
• Responsible for backup and restore strategy.
• Responsible for systems integration as and when required.
• To develop and implement data backup and restore policies.
• To monitor and control systems performance.
• To recommend latest technology on improving the performance of IT operations
• To carry out technology implementation and rollouts
Skills
Profile & Skills:
• Proven track record of minimum 3 - 5 years of Systems, Data centre, Virtualisation, SAN environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in setting up and maintaining IT systems
• Customer focused on operating environment.
• Strong project management skills
• Strong staff management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Security and process oriented
• Hands on experience on Windows operating system (2003, 2008, Win7) SharePoint, MS System Centre, VMware and MS Virtualisation, DNS, Exchange server 2010, ISA servers, Terminal servers and Citrix
• Knowledge of MS-Active Directory and associated systems
• Hands on VMware virtualisation products experience.
• SAN administration technology knowledge.
Certifications:
• Microsoft certifications including Active Directory and Exchange.
• Servers related Certifications
• VMware Virtualisation Certifications
• SAN related Certifications.
Other Requirements:
• Willing to travel
• Willing to work additional hours and to be on-call when required
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent qualification.

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