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Job Title:    Senior Cloud Engineer/Architect

Organization:  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).

 

Job Summary:  FlyHub FinTech, is a Stanbic Uganda Holdings
company charted with designing, developing, and delivering state of the art
enterprise solutions.

 

Job Purpose

We’re currently
expanding our Cloud services (AWS, and Microsoft Azure, as well as On-Premise)
and seeking an experienced and Certified cloud Engineer and cloud solution
architect with extensive experience as 
an IT professional in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based
systems for businesses. Successful candidates will be chartered with developing
and implementing cloud-applications, migrate existing on-premise applications
to the cloud, and debug cloud stacks. Furthermore, in some cases, they will be
tasked with setting up new cloud environments as the needs of the organization
grow and technologies evolve.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

·       
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 fulfillment
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.

·       
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.

·       
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.

·       
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.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       
The
ideal candidate for the Stanbic Bank Senior Cloud Engineer/Architect job
placement must hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering or in any other related technical field. In addition to educational
qualification, they should possess at least 3-5 years IT experience with cloud
operations and systems administration

·       
Certifications
(A must)

·       
It is
very important that the candidate have relevant cloud certifications (the more
the better)

·       
AWS
Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

·       
AWS
Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

·       
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+

 

How to Apply:

All candidates are
strongly encouraged to apply online at the link below.

 

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