Cloud Engineer

Department: Technical Services

Location: SA | Central | Johannesburg

Description

This role is responsible for the design, provision, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Azure:

* Cloud Infrastructure Design/Architecture definition.

* Estimation of Architecture Costs.

* Customer Environment Deployment.

* Customer Support on Environments.

* Cyber Security Regulations.

* Customer Cloud Infrastructure maintenance.

* Performance Monitoring, proactive management, and Reporting.

* Server Administration.

* Actively participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives.

* This person is expected to work with business users, analysts, and peers to provide solutions following a defined Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process. The person is expected to be a Mid to Senior Level Microsoft Engineer and has the capability and understanding of other

* applications such as Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Server environments in order to recommend and utilize appropriate toolsets based on business requirements.

* The incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as apparent or assigned.

* The job requires standby duties to be performed after hours on a rotation basis.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Qualifications and Experience

* Senior Certificate or NQF 4 equivalent.

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent is an advantage.

* 3 – 5 years’ experience in Large Microsoft Enterprise environments

* Relevant and Current Azure Certifications

Skills required

* Strong Industry knowledge

* Strong business process knowledge

* Strong Technical Skills

* Strong hardware and software knowledge

* Strong networking infrastructure knowledge

* Excellent writing skills (English)

* Excellent problem-solving skills

* Excellent Analytical Skills

* Excellent time management

* Excellent training skills

* Excellent organizational skills with the ability to visualize the big picture and manage minute details.

* Motivated and strong work ethic.

* Collaborative personality with excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels in the organization.

Knowledge

* Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internal concepts, IIS Administration experience.

* Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration networking.

* Experience with Microsoft Management tools (SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, MS Orchestrator (Opalis)).

* Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, NetMon, wire shark, etc.).

* Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS.

* Advanced experience with scripting tools such as XML and PowerShell.

* Experience working with and maintaining MS SQL Server, including performance tuning.

* Experience configuring and maintaining MS Azure PaaS & IaaS & SaaS offerings.

* Server clustering experience.

* Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification.

* Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Certifications.

* Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification

* Understanding of security and segregation of duty requirements for an enterprise system.