CLOUD SPECIALIST SENIOR ARCHITECT LEAD

 

Recruiter:

Greenfern Career Centre

Job Ref:

JHB000016/UM

Date posted:

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

850000 Annually


SUMMARY:

CLOUD SPECIALIST SENIOR ARCHITECT LEAD
About the job
Do you want to join a large ICT organisation in the corporate sector to advance your experience and skills? The incumbent will have extensive responsibility in a company that is pushing forward as a market leader for over thirty years. Technology has advanced and reinvented itself to accommodate global trends and bring world class service to its customers, thereby retaining and increasing its database of clients. The team is waiting for a senior advisory cloud specialist with a solution driven approach, a knack for high levels of creativity coupled with advanced level skills to lead them. Take this opportunity and step into the leadership role.

POSITION INFO:
Job Summary
Job Description

  • Possess a multi-function role of working with operations, software and architecture- network and internet protocols, Development ops and containerization, understanding virtualization.
  • When faced with problems run application software on virtual machines, implement critical security and recovery measures at an advanced level for all clients so that their business runs safely.
  • Advanced understanding of Cloud infrastructure based on API’s and web services for the integration of applications on the internet. Know open standards to transfer and describe data.
  • Have a complete understanding of how a top cloud service provider works from end to end -compute, storage, databases, ML and migration.
Skills
  • Programming, platform expertise, selecting the right services, managing an integrated environment, maintaining databases, managing a network and securing the cloud environment are pre-requisites skills for this senior role.
  • Coupled with high level communication and decision making ability to ensure the team stays ahead of the game and to explain to internal stakeholders the benefits and options for their evaluation.
  • It is important to be adaptable and learn new technologies.
  • Migrate data and indicate where data has been moved.
  • Automating key tasks - possess the ability to create complex algorithms that will the system make decisions.
  • Gain knowledge of the company''s cloud architecture in order to automate multiple tasks.
  • Estimate cost and workload in order to keep costs to a minimum.
  • Application and knowledge in one or more Iaas providers- AWS, MS Azure or GCP.
  • Advanced Programming code for the cloud systems in languages such as ASP.net, SQL, Phyton, Golang, PHP, C++, Java.
  • Planning and designing cloud computing applications and services.
  • Assisting with the deployment of cloud-based infrastructures.
  • High level of customer communication. Function to optimize team effort and ensure all are engaged collectively.
Experience:
  • Five years minimum in a team leadership role as a cloud engineer
  • Eight years in design and architecture programme solutions

Education:
  • Engineering/Computer Science Degree
  • Postgraduate: Masters/MBA
  • Graduate certificate in Cloud software development 

Should you not be shortlisted and contacted within three weeks please consider your application to be unsuccessful.
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