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.
• Experience in cloud-related technologies and concepts, API platform, container platform (e.g. OpenShift, Cloud Foundry) and DevOps are preferred.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge in infrastructure areas such as virtual server technologies, networking, internet protocols, scripting & monitoring tools and IT Security.
• 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.

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