Senior Cloud Architect

3 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nambiti Technologies Full time

We are recruiting for a **Senior Cloud Architect role**, on a 12-months contract. The incumbent will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining cloud-based hybrid solutions for the organisation.

**Key responsibilities**:

- **Design and Development**:Create cloud-based architectures that fulfil both technical and business needs.
- Cloud Solutions Assessment (including Pre-transfer assessment of solutions going into production)
- **Documentation**: Develop and maintain comprehensive cloud-based documentation, including architecture diagrams, patterns, policies, procedures, and training material.
- **Migration Strategies**:Collaborate with architecture & technical teams to formulate cloud migration strategies and plans
- **Implementation Support**: Offer guidance and support during the implementation of cloud solutions.
- **Blueprints and Roadmaps**: Utilise cloud architecture blueprints and reference architectures to create roadmaps aligned with industry best practices and standards.
- **Vendor Collaboration**:Work with vendors and partners to identify appropriate cloud-based solutions.
- **Issue Resolution**:Assist technical teams in resolving issues to ensure high availability and reliability of cloud infrastructure.
- **Team Collaboration**: Collaborate with technical and business teams to ensure cloud solutions align with organisational goals.
- **Evaluation Criteria**: Contribute to the development of evaluation criteria for product evaluations, RFIs, and RFPs.
- **Documentation Experience**: Document designs, cloud patterns, and other solution documentation using architectural modelling tools (ARIS & Visio).
- **Artifact Updates**:Update architecture artifacts in the architectural modelling tools repository (experience with ARIS & Visio is required).

**Minimum Technical Skills and Qualifications**:

- Must have an IT-related Bachelor’s Degree or a relevant Engineering degree.
- Must have a TOGAF Certification and any other relevant Cloud Architecture Certification.
- Must have at least 5 continuous years’ experience as a Senior Cloud Architect.

**Essential Skills required**:

- Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role.
- Professional certifications as an Azure Solutions Architect or similar, are required. Other certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or others will also beneficial.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud-based technologies and architectures.
- Experience in implementing and managing solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud-based infrastructure. Other Hyperscaler experience will also be beneficial.
- Knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Knowledge of frameworks such as NIST etc. are advantageous.

For more information please contact:
**Dimpho Bogopa

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