Cloud Technologist

Job Description

• Provide technical leadership for cloud and related technologies including DevOps, CI/CD, and Lean.
• Strong architecture skills with the ability to design and guide others in designing solutions.
• Understand business and technical requirements and evangelize modern Cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, and 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.
• Manage transformation initiatives.
• Operate within the assigned budget and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
• Support audit and infrastructure/network security improvements, disaster recovery, and security-related drills.
• Build automation wherever possible to improve developer agility.
• Provide training or conduct talks to the cloud community within the company.
• 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 years working hands-on with AWS or Azure.
• 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.
• 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.

If you are interested in this position, please click "Apply Now" and we will review your qualifications & reach out to you for further discussion & next steps.

Only shortlisted candidates will be responded to, therefore if you do not receive a response within 14 days please accept this as notification that you have not been shortlisted.

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