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Information Technology - Senior Principal Technologist (Cloud & Platforms)

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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.