Specialist - Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect at Safaricom Kenya

Responsibilities

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Analysis of current state, including reverse engineering existing cloud assets.
• Document & Manage cloud standards, virtual network mapping, data flows and conceptual flows.
• Define & manage how company data will be stored, consumed, integrated, secured and managed across cloud and on-premise implementations.
• Set standards for cloud deployments and assets, analyze current state and conceive desired future state.
• Apply architectural and technology concepts to address scalability, security, reliability, maintainability of cloud assets.
• Conduct proof of concepts, drive technology & product selection, support pilot implementations and support enterprise wide adoption of cloud, technology, processes & toolsets
• Design and optimize cloud strategies for the cost-effective delivery of scalable and reliable systems up to 99.999% uptime SLA
• Work across a wide range of stakeholders, application subject matter experts, architects, technology and business leaders to harness perspectives, influence & drive consistent cloud practices
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions align with the overall Enterprise Architecture Framework/Roadmap via clear communication and negotiation skills.
• Design, onboard, and operate 100% of cloud orders with robust cloud architecture, best-in-class design frameworks, and enterprise cloud adoption.
• Ensure 99.9%+ average availability and target 100% service availability across Cloud and ISP systems through resilient design and operations.
• Use automation scripts, agile ways of working, and operational tools to simplify cloud operations, maintenance, and order fulfilment.
• Drive cloud product ROI and benefit realization using Big Data tools and processes to support informed business decision-making.
• Deliver Security-as-a-Service across all cloud offerings, empower account managers with capacity visibility tools, and achieve 100% relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecoms, Engineering, Physics or Math or any other relevant qualification.
• Candidate should demonstrate deep and wide knowledge of VMWare, Openstack, Microsoft Azure, Containerization & Orchestration e.g Kubernetes, Serverless Architectures, Google Cloud and AWS platforms, IaaS, PaaS, xAAS, Relevant Public Cloud and Virtualization certifications huge plus
• Candidate should possess excellent knowledge & skills in cloud and virtual infrastructure design, deployment, management and monitoring as well as migration strategies from on-premise implementations to cloud or Hybrid Solutions.
• Candidate should have excellent knowledge and understanding of established/emerging cloud management technologies including and not limited to monitoring, profiling, identity management, reporting/analytics, cost optimization.
• The cloud architect must understand the cloud technologies and their use to guide the organization and enterprise customers in understanding and adopting them.
• An ideal candidate should possess advanced knowledge of industry best practices in the various aspects of information, technology trends, enterprise operations knowledge and the ability to develop solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of hardware, software, business applications and systems engineering are required
• Intermediate knowledge and execution of SDLC is required.
• Intermediate knowledge of Information Security awareness is a plus
• Intermediate knowledge of Cloud data and analytics tools and workflows is a plus
• Good knowledge of General Project Management Methodology & Tools
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture methodologies and practices a plus.