IT Cloud Specialist

3 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa Sun International Full time

**Job Purpose**
- The IT Cloud Specialist will be responsible for providing specialist, high-level technical advice and support on the Cloud computing systems for all aspects of the day-to-day infrastructure including the design, testing, deployment and monitoring of the system; system performance and reporting, resolution of system problems, provision of system diagnostic information and system security in line with agreed service levels and in a manner that is professional, reliable, and in line with business and regulatory requirements.
- This role will be required to ensure all practices are in line with policy, frameworks and tools based on researched leading and industry practice, technical solutions, specialised projects and innovation, and legislative support to advise, enable and support business operations in achieving their objectives.

**Education**
- BTech or Equivalent
- Azure Cloud Certification
- Certification in CompTIA Cloud (advantageous)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (advantageous)
- AWS certification (advantageous)

**Experience**
- Minimum of 5 years relevant IT industry experience in Cloud administration
- Demonstratable experience with Cloud servers in virtualized environments
- Demonstratable experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
- Demonstratable experience of Server hardware
- Demonstrable experience in the fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages

**Skills and Knowledge**
- Analysing
- Creating and improving
- Sourcing information
- Taking ownership
- Responding with urgency
- Collaborating
- Cloud servers in virtualized environments
- Fundamentals of Cloud scripting languages
- Installing, configuring, and maintaining services viz Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.
- Configuration management tools, such as Puppet and Chef
- Load balancing, firewalls, etc.
- Proficiency with network tools such as iptables, Cloud IPVS, HAProxy, etc.
- Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
- Knowledge of servers and switches and client infrastructure setup
- Project Management

**Key Performance Areas.**
- Act as the owner and technical expert for creating and maintaining the Cloud computing system and the resolution of technical issues for the Sun International group and provide cloud hosting services support
- Design system installations and develop and administer configuration management solutions for the cloud computing system
- Evaluate and monitor system performance and ensure compliance with security standards, including centralized logging, threat analysis and remediation
- Produce and deliver support and advice, documentation and training around security patching and ‘hardening’ of Cloud installations, undertaking security analysis and hardening to any systems administration
- Diagnose Cloud operating system faults, troubleshoot and provide working solutions
- Manage enterprise cloud platform and perform migration from System Center to VMware cloud environments
- Conduct the migration and operationalisation of workloads to new cloud solutions
- Implementation and/or working in Cloud Brokarage environments
- Design and develop infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
- Develop test automation frameworks in collaboration with rest of the team
- Define, document and enforce system standards
- Provide systems administration and software support for Cloud based systems
- Develop support processes and provide advice and support on back up, data storage, data recovery and meeting regulations on data management using Cloud
- Report on the Cloud operational status by gathering and prioritising information and managing projects
- Manage SLA process, performance and billing with vendors around Cloud requirements and support

**Equity**
- Preference will be given to employees from the designated groups in line with the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998, SISA internal recruitment policy as well as units employment equity plans.

**POPI Statement.



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