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Job Location drjobs

Durban - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Key purpose:

As a Solutions Architect youll be responsible for the design and implementation of our Cloud Platforms. You will work closely with development teams to ensure that they are implementing solutions in line with the latest industry standards. You should have experience working on cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and understand how these platforms work. Were looking for candidates who can articulate technical solutions clearly so that everyone understands what is being achieved. This role will involve helping to build new products improve existing products and define future product roadmaps through design thinking processes (User Experience Design & User Research). The candidate must have demonstrable skills in software architecture cloud technologies continuous integration tools such as Jenkins / TeamCity / Bamboo etc. web application security practices including automated code.

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Technical design build and support cloud solutions to meet current and future business needs
  • Document the as is Cloud Technical landscape to identify opportunities to improve and optimize
  • Develop a technical blueprint and guidelines for consuming Cloud Services
  • Develop migration plans to transition on premise workloads into Cloud
  • Develop a decision tree to assist in choosing the right cloud platform for each use case
  • Assist with technical roadmaps and approaches for delivering technology and transformation
  • Work closely with our vendors to deliver solutions to our clients
  • Educate and be a change adoption agent for our business to utilize cloud solutions effectively
  • Develop and inform our users around the technical use cases for Cloud solutions
  • Drive the execution of key project delivery and bring technology strategy to life
  • Identify opportunities to improve ways of work using cloud solutions through automation
  • Mentor and train our global IT Teams on Cloud Solutions
  • Maintain an IT Asset list of all cloud purchased products user license allocation to optimize spend and maintain software license inventory for audit and compliance purposes
  • Ensure proposed solutions are highly available
  • Develop and maintain documentation e.g. Policies Standards Processes Design Specification As Built documentation
  • Develop and test disaster recovery plan/s where applicable at least annually for cloud deployed solutions
  • Enforce Security by Design principle when designing installing and maintaining all cloud servicesCloud Platform
  • Machine Learning CI Cloud Service Discovery Automated Tuning API Engines Scripting API Management Collaborates with other DevOps engineers to implement enterprise architecture business process and systems on cloud platforms
  • Develops application templates and reusable components infrastructure code and cloudnative extension components
  • Implements design patterns architecture principles and best practices for the future development of applications and processes

Qualifications and experience:

  • Bachelors degree or diploma in Information Technology or similar qualification
  • 10 Years of IT experience
  • 6 years working experience designing installing and maintaining Cloud Solutions
  • AWS or Azure certifications in 1 or more of the following areas example IAAS DEVOPS Containerization
  • Experience working with Terraform GIT GITHUB

Employment Type

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