Senior Cloud Architects Specialist ( DevOps/SysOps)

Job Description

OBJECTIVES:

The Senior Cloud Architects Specialist ( DevOps/SysOps) will oversee all aspects of cloud computing strategy and practice, including adoption plans, monitoring, design, implementation, and management

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Project Leadership. Work with infrastructure, network, security, and management resources to identify areas of improvement and collaborate to evaluate and implement technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions
• Collaborate with network, database staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes.
• Work with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues.
• Manage and resolve issues in a variety of environments (e.g. Production, UAT and Development) and evaluate priority, actions and impact based on situational requirements.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure cloud environments with standards and project/operational requirement
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all cloud services, resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
• Serve as the IT Staff of FEC as assigned.
• Perform other duties as requested by the System Manager
• Respond rapidly to maintenance needs, including on weekends and evenings.

Job Requirement

• Bachelor of IT, Computer Science or relevant field
• AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps/SysOps Certifications; Linux Certification or any cloud certification/qualification is highly regarded 
• At Least 1.5++ years’ recent extensive hands-on public/private cloud technologies especially AWS. Experience in automation engineering is a plus
• Experience working with ITIL processes.
• Experience with monitoring application performance, monitoring, tracing
• Experience writing code or scripts in at least one of the languages: Python, Ruby, Node.js, Java, etc. is the plus

Technical skills:

• Worked on one of DevOps & Monitoring/Automation tools, e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, SolarWinds, ELK, Grafana
• Knowledge of security & its best practices
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends.
• Excellent understanding of DevOps/CloudOps best practices, approaches, and methodologies
• Practice with the complex cluster, high availability service design/configurations
• Strong troubleshooting skills in resolving issues in mission critical environments.