Cloud Solutions Architect Data at icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health

Overall purpose of the job

The Cloud Solutions Architect will develop scalable and cost-effective architectural solutions for on-premises and cloud-managed services to icipe’s 4-H paradigm (Environmental, Plant, Human, and Animal Health Themes). The position-holder will also be responsible for engineering elastic and interoperable solutions that inter-play with the research data management and archiving infrastructure.

Specific Duties

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Design and deploy scalable, cost-effective, interoperable, and robust cloud architectural solutions that adapt to the dynamic business and research data needs.
• Assess deployed system architectures and those under implementation and, working with technical staff,
• reengineer optimal solutions and products.
• Deploy and document application programming interfaces (APIs) in microservice architectures.
• Migrate on-premises and off-premises software, data, and services.
• Develop web applications, preferably in Node/React JS, Django/Flask, or any other relevant front, and backend web programming languages.
• Write Linux scripts and commands and containerisation of applications.

Requirements/Qualifications

• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related field from a recognised university.
• Related certification(s) in cloud managed services is an added advantage.
• Knowledge and skills in cloud-managed services, preferably in Azure and AWS.
• Good understanding of architecting and building secure and cost-effective on-premises and cloud enterprise systems.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge and skills in big data analytics.
• Good understanding of IT security, data infrastructure, governance, and user-centered design practices.
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems (Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows) and database management systems (Oracle, Ms. SQL, MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL DBs).
• Experience in installing end-user applications and supporting end users working on high-performance computing (HPC) systems is an added advantage.
• At least 1 year of work experience in a relevant area.
• Previous experience at an international/ regional research organization is an added advantage.

Closing date: 31 May 2022