Information Technology - Senior 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.

-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.