Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect at TalentUp Africa

Job Description

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology. You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will assist on larger projects or run smaller opportunities independently.
• You will be required to have strong presentation, verbal communication and written communications skills.
• Your focus will be on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.
• You will be leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments, Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud, Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell) and Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.

Your Profile

Qualification And Experience

• BA/BS degree and a minimum of 10+ years of IT implementation experience
• Two (2) AWS Certification(s) at the associate, professional or speciality certification offered by Amazon Web Services.
• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, computer, storage, and virtualization experience.
• 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.)
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash).

Nice to have

• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
• Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.