Job Description

• 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.

• Strong architecture skills with ability to design and guide others designing solutions.

• Understand business and technical requirements and evangelise modern Cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, Lean practices.

• 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.

• Actively and effectively track and manage initiatives and BAU activities.

• Team and people management.

• Operate within assigned budget and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

• Support audit and infrastructure/network security improvements, disaster recovery and security related drills.

• Define opportunities for automation wherever possible to improve developer agility.

• Explore, learn and deploy new technologies to help the company to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.

• This position requires periodic system administration outside of normal business hours.

Requirements

• Possess a degree in Information Technology or related fields.

• 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.

• Expert and "hands on" knowledge of AWS cloud and ideally good familiarity with another cloud provider (e.g. Azure / GCP).

• AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional) certification preferred.

• Advanced python scripting skills preferred.

• Strong experience with security (cloud compliance, vulnerability management, patching, encryption, best practices etc).

• Understanding and ability to communicate cloud business benefits, cloud economics, cloud migrations, cloud native architectures, etc.

• Conversant with many different areas of infrastructure, infrastructure definition tools (Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM templates) and automation tools (Ansible).

• Strong analytical, project management, communications and interpersonal skills. Strong collaboration skills and growth mindset.

• Strong people and team management.