Demonstration of market / industry experience and knowledge, assistance in sales.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other Solution Architects in the team as appropriate.
Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
Develop and organize cloud systems.
Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company
Undertake customer requirements gathering and scoping. Deliver customer workshops and presentations as required.
Keep updated with latest technological advances and trends in relation to cloud technology
Support tenders as SPOC for security solutions.
Help drive pursuits and engage in complex deals, matching outcomes to expectations
Degree holder Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent qualification.
In depth understanding of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud solutions and experienced in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models
10+ years of IT engineering experience with at least 5 years in cloud technology
Extensive experience in conducting Cloud Readiness Assessments observing business and technical perspectives
Experience in evaluating existing data centre and digital strategies
Experience in conducting cloud service maps, TCO analysis, security considerations as part of a wider Cloud Adoption Framework
Strong understanding of Cloud Security Principles and its practical implementations
Effective communication and presentation skills with ability to transpose complex security concepts into business terms/impacts
Ability to work easily with diverse and dynamic teams
**Technical Skills**:
A firm understanding of the cloud service, security and deployment models for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and Function as a Service (FaaS) service offerings provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platforms.
Containers Management -using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift
Elastic Scaling - using tools like Nginx, HAProxy
Dynamic Discover - using tools like Zookeeper or Etcd
Configuration Management - using tools like Ansible, Packer, etc
Continuous Integration - using tools like Maven and Jenkins
Continuous Deployment - using tools like Jenkins, Rundeck
Enable monitoring tools like ELK, Splunk, etc
Dev Ops Tools and CI/CD Processes -GitFlow, BitBucket etc.
Messaging Tools - Confluent Kafka, Replicator, Registry Schema
Hands on experience and Knowledge of microservices architecture