Software Architect at Serenity Personnel Services

About the job
A leading fintech company with offices based in the Winelands, Cape Town, is now searching for an experienced and knowledgeable Solutions Architect to join their international and national teams.

The ideal candidate will have extensive and broad IT experience, with experience in development, business needs analysis, operations management, micro-service architecture and design and implementation of Cloud Solutions. Ideally the candidate will have previous working experience designing and implementing on-premises and SaaS cloud deployment models.

This position is part-time remote, and the Architect will be required to attend meetings in office in Somerset West.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Establishing best practices for cloud usage within the company.
• Identifying, designing and implementing cloud environments to address business needs.
• Designing and implementing cloud infrastructure, cloud application architecture and cloud security architecture.
• Develops and coordinates cloud architecture across all elements, including application development, identity and access management, network and data management.
• Provide expertise on infrastructure and build-and-release to development teams.
• Collaboration with business representatives, development teams and other architects.
• Support implementation and adoption of the identified cloud technologies.
• Cloud Management and monitoring.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant IT qualification
• Must have strong micro-service architecture experience
• Minimum of 10 years software development experience, SDLC
• Cloud experience - SaaS deployment, migration, configuration, automation (Azure, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Strong .Net, JavaScript, Angular skills
• Solid understanding of scaling, load balancing, replication of high-availability and disaster recovery (DR)and application performance monitoring (APM).
• Strong infrastructure and application security knowledge, including available security products, internal processes for secure implementations, certifications and audits.
• Advantageous: financial services / insurance exposure