Senior Manager Cloud Platforms
Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
Date Posted | October 19, 2022 |
Category |
IT / Information Technology
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | KES |
Description
Technology Infrastructure department oversees planning, deployment and operation of state-of-the-art infrastructure services that include server, storage, network, and databases that support mission critical services for the Bank.
The role holder will act as the leader a team of that is composed of technical experts on container management and middleware platforms that support business critical financial services for the Bank.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ensuring conformance to security standards for all PaaS and middleware platforms.
- Responsible for CapEx and OpEx planning within the cloud platforms and middleware domain.
- Accountable for building, maintaining, and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed PaaS with Openshift and middleware platforms.
- Provide leadership in interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the PaaS and middleware platforms with scalability, reliability and security designed.
- Provide leadership and execution of automation of systems and services at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
- Provide leadership for adoption of the ‘open source first’ as a fit for the future initiative within the cloud and middleware domain.
- Establish effective relationship with suppliers and partners to influence their plans and maximize value delivery from the relationship for all cloud and middleware platforms.
- Lead a team of technical experts maintaining KCB PaaS and middleware systems running on diverse technologies such as RedHat Openshift and WS02.
The Person:
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in ICT related field or Electrical Engineering.
- Professional Qualifications in RedHat Administration (RHCE/RHCSA), Openshift/Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS or Azure Architect/SysOps, JBOSS/Fuse/3Scale) and middleware platforms such as Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, TIBCO, WSO2, RedHat Fuse.
- 6 years progressive working experience in Linux administration with at least 5 years in middleware administration and 2 years in Docker/Openshift/Kubernetes administration.
- Experience with IT automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.