Engineer, Cloud - Flyhub Uganda

  • Full-time
  • Business Segment: Archived_01_Office of the Executive

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

  • The Cloud engineer is responsible for designing technical solutions on (AWS or Azure), adhering to the company and customer requirements, creating functional design specifications, AWS and Azure reference architectures, and also render support with other project deliverables as necessary.
  • Responsible for the design, review of architectures, and construction of cloud service provider environments.
  • Responsible for the evaluation of cloud strategy and program architecture.
  • Responsible for the planning, design, development, management, maintenance and support of all applications in the Cloud environment.
  • Responsible for monitoring the consumption of cloud resources, request fulfilment turnaround, application performance, and systems security posture.
  • Provide complex technical expertise on all phases of software systems programming/development, contributing to the development of project plans, and assign and monitor tasks required to implement cloud related projects.
  • Offer recommendations with respect to cloud migrations and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for AWS and/or Azure adoption.
  • Educate the organisation on cloud engineering perspectives on new approaches

Qualifications

B. S. degree in Computer Science or similar degree in another related technical field.

3-5years IT experience with cloud operations and systems administration

Professional certification in Cloud Engineering

  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Admin – Associate.
  • AWS Certified DevOps – Professional
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • CompTIA Cloud

Additional Information

Behavioral competencies

  • Essential the candidate has familiarity or an understanding of software development, engineering, programming languages and tools; Java, Python, Ruby, .NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, and ability to work with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, XP)
  • Collaborative skills: Part of the daily tasks of the advertised Cloud Engineer role is to work with cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, and Business Analysts), so it is vital that they can work in a team-driven environment
  • Communication skills: The cloud engineer will work with various team members, including IT professionals and non-IT experts, so it is crucial that they have an exceptional verbal, presentation, and written communications skills to convey information clearly to the different audience
  • Open to learning: Cloud technologies become advanced over time, so an essential ingredient that is the willingness and ability to learn and work with new and emerging technologies.
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