Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries.
ob Description
DESCRIBE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES *
Implementation of cloud architecture standards and principles
Define and implement cloud engineering patterns & standards
Automation - Development of automation systems to enable scale and speed. Removal of any manual processes within the cloud environment
Evaluation of cloud services
Identify PaaS and SaaS services for the Ecosystem
Define standards together with cloud architecture and security for usage of services and development of self-service capability for the identified service
Monitoring
Define monitoring and reporting requirements.
Implementation of monitoring for ecosystem.
Inclusion of monitoring practices for services and infrastructure automation
Continuous Improvement – Cost Optimisation, Performance Improvement, Capacity management
Liaise with vendors to drive the selection and procurement of cloud enabling technologies and services
Manage Networking of cloud environments
Ensure Recovery
Manage Infrastructure Availability and Resilience
Define and implement cloud policies
Manage governance and compliance for cloud
Incident Management for cloud environments
Management of OM Landing zones - Mutlicloud
Management of centralized platforms on cloud e.g EKS, ECS
Assessment of maturity of squads cloud practice adoption and creation of plans and processes to improve maturity
MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)*
Work Experience
Level General Experience 6
Managerial Experience 6
MINIMUM EDUCATION (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)*
- A numerate Bachelors Degree (e.g.Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering) with minimum or equivalent technical qualification
- 5 years of professional experience.
- Relevant cloud certification
RESPONSIBILITIES
Cloud Service Delivery Management | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | CLOUD COMPUTING
- Direct and oversee cloud service delivery infrastructure management to ensure business requirements can be met.
Continuous Improvement | GENERAL | INNOVATION
- Lead the review of existing operations and the implementation of innovation processes across the division or function to ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.
Continuous Integration | PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | PROJECT/PROGRAM/PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
- Oversee the ongoing integration work for a large project or program (i.e. construction, configuration, platform, system, application, product, service, etc.) and reprioritize the work and the deployment of resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered
Cloud Architecture | ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE | DATA SCIENCE
- Design, implement, and evolve robust and effectively aligned cloud architecture solutions.
Cost Accounting | FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING | FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS
- Lead a team of cost accountants and conduct complex analyses of the business's costs to identify variances, suggest efficiencies, and increase profitability.
Analysis of "As Is" and "To Be" | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
- Document the most complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
Company Data Protection | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | DATA MANAGEMENT
- Design, implement and monitor complex disaster recovery and contingency plans to protect company data.
Data Management | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | DATA MANAGEMENT
- Take responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organization's data management system.
Information Security | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/DIGITAL | DATA MANAGEMENT
- Define business impact of security incidents and identify and drive recommendations for change to prevent similar incidents.
Personal Capability Building | GENERAL | INNOVATION
- Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function.
- Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- The cloud engineer will be responsible for managing and overseeing Old Mutuals cloud infrastructure, including designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based technologies, optimizing cloud usage and performance, and ensuring the security and availability of the cloud environment. This job will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical expertise, coaching and support for cloud-related initiatives
Skills
- Adaptive Thinking
- Adaptive Thinking
- Agile Methodology
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Azure Devops
- Change Management
- Cloud Compliance
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Delivery
- Cloud Deployment
- Cloud DevOps
- Cloud Engineering
- Cloud Infrastructure Management
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Networking
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Solutions
- Cloud Technology
- Computer Network Security
- Cost Account Management
- Cost Budgeting
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection Methods
- DevOps
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) {+ 11 more}
Competencies
Education
- NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent
Closing Date
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