Job Description
ā¢Provide technical leadership for hybrid cloud environment (public cloud and on-premise data centre) and related technologies including DevOps, CI/CD, Lean, and data centre platforms solutions, such as VMs, OSes, database, storage, backup, monitoring, automation.
ā¢Strong architecture skills with ability to design and guide others designing solutions.
ā¢Understand business and technical requirements and evangelise modern Cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, Lean practices.
ā¢Design cloud consumption models, processes and technical solutions to ensure application teams are able to build and deploy solutions with minimal friction while ensuring security and operational control.
ā¢Actively and effectively track and manage initiatives and BAU activities.
ā¢Team and people management.
ā¢Operate within assigned budget and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
ā¢Support audit and infrastructure/network security improvements, disaster recovery and security related drills.
ā¢Define opportunities for automation wherever possible to improve developer agility.
ā¢Explore, learn and deploy new technologies to help the company to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.
ā¢This position requires periodic system administration outside of normal business hours.
Requirements
ā¢Possess a degree in Information Technology or related fields.
ā¢Minimum of 10 years of IT experience with at least 4 year working hands-on with AWS or Azure, and on-premise platforms solutions and technologies (OSes, databases, storage, backup, messaging, monitoring, and automation solutions, etc). Minimum 5 years of people and team management experience.
ā¢Expert and āhands onā knowledge of AWS cloud and ideally good familiarity with another cloud provider (e.g. Azure / GCP).
ā¢AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional) certification preferred.
ā¢Advanced python scripting skills preferred.
ā¢Strong experience with security (cloud compliance, vulnerability management, patching, encryption, best practices etc).
ā¢Understanding and ability to communicate cloud business benefits, cloud economics, cloud migrations, cloud native architectures, etc.
ā¢Conversant with many different areas of infrastructure, infrastructure definition tools (Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM templates) and automation tools (Ansible).
ā¢Strong analytical, project management, communications and interpersonal skills. Strong collaboration skills and growth mindset.
ā¢Strong people and team management.