Information Technology - Principal Technologist (Cloud & Platforms)

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.