Senior Cloud Engineer at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

The Sr. Cloud Engineer’s role is to design, evaluate, migrate, implement and support the High end and Mid- Range IT cloud hosted systems, system automation as well as the on premise infrastructure line with Bank’s Vision and provisioning Highly Available Server infrastructure for the Critical Server systems. Ensuring system availability in line with the bank’s SLAs.

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Professional:

•  Professional qualifications in IT e.g. Azure, AWS, OCI Certification, RHCSA, VCP, ITIL, MCSE, A+, MCITP, MCP,Other relevant professional qualifications in IT field would be added advantage.
•  Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP

Desired work experience:

•  Cloud Infrastructure competencies i.e Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud etc.
•  Cloud Infrastructure architecture, design, configuration, deployment and maintenance i.e. Azure/AWS/OCI
•  Design, Setup and Implementation of both private and public Cloud infrastructure i.e. Kubernetes, Azure Arc, Open Computing & Open Shift.
•  Using Infrastructure as Code for infrastructure provisioning (e.g.: Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, ARM, etc.)
•  Drive automation on service provisioning in Installation of new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
•  Participate and assist the bank in setting the long-term direction, roadmaps, and standards for the cloud technical architecture.
•  Managing Cloud Vendors and driving new Cloud technologies
•  Simplify and drive Cloud adoption
•  Manage and assist ensure Cost optimization on cloud
•  Planning, installing, Troubleshooting and configuring large deployments of Windows Server, UNIX based systems and Hyper-V/VMware both on premise and cloud.
•  Good knowledge on systems backups, risk mitigation and business continuity
•  Technical skills to effectively perform or guide performance of systems design and operations activities/tasks in a manner that consistently produce high quality of service.
•  Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to consistently achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.