Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Fnz; Johannesburg; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in wealth management is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to deploy high-quality cloud solutions in Johannesburg. The role involves managing infrastructure, ensuring system performance, and implementing security measures. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud technologies and relevant certifications, with a focus on automation and system resilience.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years operations experience supporting cloud environments.
• Experience with building and supporting Cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security best-practices and standards.

Responsibilities

• Design hybrid and cloud environments for resilience and availability.
• Build infrastructure deployment code and pipelines for automation.
• Ensure uptime and performance SLAs are met for cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Automation

Cloud Network

Security Solutions

Containerization

Operating Systems

Education

Degree or equivalent industry certifications

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cisco

F5

Check Point

Job description

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Johannesburg

Role Description

This role is technical in nature and is responsible for deploying high quality and timely hybrid and cloud infrastructure solutions and to ensure the availability, stability and performance of the platforms.

• Manage Infrastructure as Code
• Automation
• Cloud Network
• Security Solutions: DDoS, Network Firewalls and Web Application firewalls
• Operating Systems
• Containerization

Organisational Design

This position is part of the CIO department and reports to the regional Head of Cloud Infrastructure Management

Specific Role Responsibilities

Design: Ensure that hybrid and cloud environments are designed to best practice standards for resilience and availability to ensure the highest SLAs are maintained.

Automation: Build infrastructure deployment code and pipelines to enable the automated deployment and management of infrastructure in the cloud and on-premises.

Availability: Ensure that uptime SLAs are met every month for cloud infrastructure solutions that you are responsible for, by managing and resolving issue logs; lifecycle management of deployed infrastructure solutions.

Performance: Ensure that performance SLAs are met every month for cloud solutions that you are responsible for by monitoring systems, network performance, capacity and growth; suggesting and implementing performance improvements.

Information Security: Ensure that the cloud environments are internally and externally secure by following existing policies and procedures and documenting for audit purposes as required; implementing security controls and remediations; completing risk assessments and build guides for new and existing systems. Align the environment to the Group’s security standards.

Systems Resilience: Ensure that cloud environments are secure and backed up by ensuring that regular backups are made and are tested. Participate in yearly BCP & DR tests. Ensure that cloud management is in line with company requirements and departmental policy for resilience and availability. Document and keep solution design, business continuity plans and standard operating procedure documents up to date.

Training: Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills. Provide technical advice and mentoring within the team.

Project Work: Implement new projects to meet project timelines. Work in a matrix structure with multi-national teams.

Budget: Recommend changes that could reduce costs in your areas of responsibility.

Experience required

• Degree qualified or equivalent industry certifications and relevant experience
• Certificates that would be advantageous:
  • Microsoft Azure
  • F5
  • Check Point
  • Cisco
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

Cloud management related to:

• Experience with building and supporting Cloud environments
• 3 to 5 years operations experience supporting cloud environments including pipelines, IaC, containerization, networks, IaaS, LAN, WAF and firewalls
• Redundancy technologies including availability zones, Load Balancing, BGP, DNS load-balancing, geo-redundant storage
• Cloud security best-practices and standards
• Identity and access management control technologies
• Email forwarding technologies and domain manage
• System management tools for logging, monitoring, configuration management, AAA
• Infrastructure discovery and documentation
• System performance optimization
• Lifecycle management, software patching and upgrades
• Virtual private networks, TLS, DNS, Databases

Key Technologies:

• Microsoft
• F5
• Checkpoint
• Fortinet
• Kubernetes
• Cisco
• Linux
• AWS

Attributes:

• Keen interest in and knowledge of latest technologies.
• Successfully implemented projects.
• Good team player with the ability to work independently and able to take initiative and drive change.
• Ability to function effectively in a matrix structure.
• Excellent communication skills, confident in dealing with internal teams and external clients and 3rd parties.
• Demonstratable problem-solving capabilities.
• Able to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, high-performance environment

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.