Cloud Infrastructure Architect
About the Company
Our client is one of the world’s biggest providers of on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments. Offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers around the world. Our client has over 17 years of experience delivering cloud solutions to millions of users around the world, and has the most operational experience, at greater scale, of any cloud provider.
Job Description
- You will perform Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
- You will carry out configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
- You will lead highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
- You will manage data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
- You will demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
Your Profile
Qualification and Experience
- BA/BS degree or 5+ years of professional or military experience.
- 5+ years of IT implementation experience.
- Two (2) active AWS Certification(s) at the associate, professional or specialty certification offered by Amazon Web Services and 1 AWS certification in-progress with expected completion in 1 month.
- Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
- Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
- Experience with integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
- Large-scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud.
- Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
Nice to have
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation.
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
- Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
About TalentUp Africa
TUA (TalentUp Africa) is a global training, recruitment, outsourcing, and relocation company based in the US, Nigeria, and Barbados. We work with the goals to empower top African tech professionals; break through global barriers; and to solve the global tech talent crisis by opening opportunities for African talent and global firms.
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
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