IT Cloud Analyst- Technology Integration at Bioversity International

Job Description

•  Maintain in-depth knowledge of company’s strategic business plans.
•  Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, IT cloud engineers, and other systems architects.
•  Document and develop in-depth knowledge of company’s existing IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
•  Develop and manage an IT cloud infrastructure capacity plan.
•  Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a cloud technology standards policy.
•  Conduct research on emerging cloud technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
•  Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
•  Design, develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end IT cloud integrated systems.
•  Develop and execute test plans to check IT cloud infrastructure and systems technical performance. Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement.
•  Provides expert day-to-day technical support of a range of Cloud-based applications and services, performing an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities, and undertaking work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts.
•  Acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for AWS cloud infrastructure within the Cloud Team.
•  Works with the Cloud Product Owner to ensure long-term strategy remains up to date with new developments or offerings from AWS.
•  Designing and configuring virtual machines as per business needs, including setting up networking resources such as load balancers for scalability purposes.
•  Work with DevOps professionals to debug code/programs if issues are encountered during deployment phases.
•  Proactively ensures security is appropriately addressed within their area by self and others.
•  Engages or works with security specialists as necessary. Contributes to the security culture of the organization.
•  Provide services costing expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, IT/cloud engineers, and other systems architects.

Requirements

•  University degree or technical diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic Engineer, or related fields.
•  At least three years of relevant work experience, preferably in an international organization.
•  One or more of the following certifications:
•  Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
•  Understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and NoSQL.
•  Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
•  Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.
•  Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.
•  Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
•  Hands-on experience with core LAN/WAN network technologies.
•  Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP and OSI Network.
•  Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON.
•  Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.
•  Work experience with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.
•  Awareness of end-user computing and collaborative technologies.
•  Large-scale distributed systems architecture.
•  System performance tuning.
•  Information and application security concepts including public key encryption, remote access, access credentials, and certificate-based authentication.
•  Familiarity with configuration management system (Example kaseya, puppet).
•  Experience with cloud environments.
•  Public Cloud billing experience
•  Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken.