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Cloud Engineer Job Careers – Stanbic Bank
Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
FlyHub Uganda Limited, is a Stanbic Uganda Holdings company charted with designing, developing, and delivering state of the art enterprise solutions.
Job Summary: The Cloud Engineer is in charge of designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based systems for businesses. The incumbent will be developing and implementing cloud-applications, migrate existing on-premise applications to the cloud, and debug cloud stacks. The jobholder will also be setting up new cloud environments as the needs of the organization grow and technologies evolve.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Client
- Responsible for designing technical solutions on (AWS or Azure), adhering to the company and customer requirements, creating functional design specifications, AWS and Azure reference architectures, and also render support with other project deliverables as necessary.
Product
- Responsible for the design, review of architectures, and construction of cloud service provider environments.
- Responsible for the evaluation of cloud strategy and program architecture.
- Responsible for the planning, design, development, management, maintenance and support of all applications in the Cloud environment.
- Responsible for monitoring the consumption of cloud resources, request fulfilment turnaround, application performance, and systems security posture.
- Provide complex technical expertise on all phases of software systems programming/development, contributing to the development of project plans, and assign and monitor tasks required to implement cloud related projects.
- Offer recommendations with respect to cloud migrations and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for AWS and/or Azure adoption.
- Responsible for gathering system requirements working together with application architects and owners
- Responsible for generating scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resources
- Discover standard cloud services offerings, install, and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings
- Build software for the organization’s systems and ES as a service offering
- Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to cloud offerings
- Responsible for debugging technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc.
- Collaborate with the engineering teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructure.
People
- Liaise and collaborate with the FUL team, providing support to the entire company for its cloud needs.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and translate the business requirements into cloud outcomes.
- Presents findings and observations to team for development of recommendations.
- Acts as a subject matter expert from a cloud perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to cloud engineering and the use thereof.
- Educate the organisation on cloud engineering perspectives on new approaches.
- Ensure ongoing knowledge of industry standards as well as best practice and identify gaps between these standards and company standards.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Stanbic Bank Cloud Engineer job must hold a B. S. degree in Computer Science or similar degree in another related technical field.
- Professional certification in Cloud Engineering
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Admin – Associate.
- AWS Certified DevOps – Professional
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer
- Microsoft Certified: Architect Design
- CompTIA Cloud
- Preferred other qualifications (added advantage): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Three to five years of IT experience with cloud operations and systems administration
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Docker, OpenStack, etc.
- Essential the candidate has familiarity or an understanding of software development, engineering, programming languages and tools; Java, Python, Ruby, .NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, and ability to work with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, XP)
- Collaborative skills: Part of the daily tasks of the advertised Cloud Engineer role is to work with cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, and Business Analysts), so it is vital that they can work in a team-driven environment
- Communication skills: The cloud engineer will work with various team members, including IT professionals and non-IT experts, so it is crucial that they have an exceptional verbal, presentation, and written communications skills to convey information clearly to the different audience
- Open to learning: Cloud technologies become advanced over time, so an essential ingredient that is the willingness and ability to learn and work with new and emerging technologies.
Certifications (A big plus)
- Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 7 Application Developer
- Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer (OCPJP) certification
- Oracle Certified Associate Java Programmer (OCAJP) – Java SE 8 and Java SE 11
- Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer (OCPJP) – Java SE 8 and Java SE 11
- Oracle Certified Professional Java Application Developer (OCPJAD) – Java EE 7
- Oracle Certified Master Java Enterprise Architect (OCMJEA) – Available for Java EE 6
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- CompTIA Cloud+
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity is encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below.
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