DevOps Engineer

Our client, an IT services, software development, and dataengineering consulting company, is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the organisation's cloud architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures and technology roadmaps
• Design end-to-end cloud solutions aligned with business objectives, application requirements, enterprise architecture and technology standards
• Develop secure, scalable, highly available, resilient and cost-effective architectures across AWS, Azure and/or other major cloud platforms
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend solutions that improve business agility, scalability, reliability and operational efficiency
• Establish cloud architecture principles, design patterns, standards and best practices across the organisation
• Provide architectural governance and technical oversight throughout the solution lifecycle, from initial design through implementation and operations
• Lead and provide technical direction for cloud migration, application modernisation and infrastructure transformation programmes
• Assess existing on-premises applications and infrastructure and develop appropriate cloud migration strategies and roadmaps
• Define migration approaches such as rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase and retire based on business, technical and financial considerations
• Design target-state cloud architectures and migration patterns for enterprise applications, databases, infrastructure and services
• Identify opportunities to modernise legacy platforms through cloud-native services, containers, serverless technologies and managed services
• Work with project and engineering teams to ensure successful migration, implementation and transition into production
• Design cloud infrastructure covering compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, security, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery
• Design and implement cloud landing zones, account/subscription structures, network architecture, governance models and security guardrails
• Develop architectures using containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes where appropriate
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation using technologies such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep/ARM or equivalent
• Establish standards for cloud environments, configuration management, automation, monitoring, logging and operational support
• Provide technical guidance on hybrid and multi-cloud architectures where required
• Incorporate security principles and controls into cloud architecture and solution design from the outset
• Ensure cloud architectures comply with organisational policies, regulatory requirements and applicable industry standards
• Conduct architecture and security reviews to identify risks, vulnerabilities, compliance gaps and technical debt
• Design appropriate backup, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions to meet agreed Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability and appropriate protection of enterprise data and workloads
• Design highly available and resilient cloud environments with appropriate scalability, redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities
• Establish cloud performance, availability and capacity standards and continuously identify opportunities for improvement
• Monitor and optimise cloud consumption, resource utilisation and infrastructure costs
• Evaluate technology options based on total cost of ownership, performance, scalability, security and operational requirements
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve the efficiency and reliability of cloud operations.
• Review and approve technical and solution architecture designs to ensure compliance with enterprise standards
• Produce architecture diagrams, technical specifications, reference architectures, design documents and implementation roadmaps.
• Maintain architecture documentation, technology standards and cloud service catalogues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• 3-5 years experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, solution architecture or enterprise architecture
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud solutions
• Proven experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure; exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing models including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cloud-native services.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud migration, infrastructure modernisation and transformation programmes.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks, governance processes and technology standards.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Microsoft Certified - Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent preferred

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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