Cloud Infrastructure Architect at TalentUp Africa

Job Description

• You will perform Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
• You will carry out configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
• You will lead highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
• You will manage data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
• You will demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Your Profile

Qualification and Experience

• BA/BS degree or 5+ years of professional or military experience.
• 5+ years of IT implementation experience.
• Two (2) active AWS Certification(s) at the associate, professional or specialty certification offered by Amazon Web Services and 1 AWS certification in-progress with expected completion in 1 month.
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
• Experience with integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
• Large-scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud.
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.

Nice to have

• Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation.
• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.