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.
Identify, test, communicate and implement emerging cloud technologies to improve operational efficiency, speed-to-market and reduce annual running cost.
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. Manage team of cloud devops engineers in terms of technical solutions, work assignments and personal development.
Operate within assigned budget and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
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.
Support audit and infrastructure / network security scans, Disaster Recovery and security related drills.
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 5 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).
Strong analytical, project management, communications and interpersonal skills.
