Cloud Engineer
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 Senior Level Microsoft Administrator 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.
- 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.
- 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)).
- Experience with Unified Messaging (MS Exchange and Lync/Skype for Business)
- 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.
- Experience with data reconciliation and migration between data environments (e.g. dev, test, staging, prod, etc).
- Experience with Virtualized storage including vendors like NetApp, EMC, Nimble, and Microsoft. ISCI and Fiber channel SAN storage experience.
- MCSE Server Infrastructure or MCSE Private Cloud.
- 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
- Senior Certificate or NQF 4 equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Relevant and Current Azure Certifications
- Senior Certificate or NQF 4 equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Relevant and Current Azure Certifications
- Connecting Collaborating
- Customer Centricity
- Engaged Communication
- Organizational Governance
- Perseverance
- Personal Growth and Development
- Quality mindset
- Results and Goal orientatedÂ
- Time management Â
- Values and Ethics
- Analytical Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Planning and Organizing
- Problem-Solving
- Systemic Thinking
- AccountabilityÂ
- AdaptabilityÂ
- Decisiveness
- Emotional MaturityÂ
- Growth Mindset
- Inclusivity Diversity mindset
- Resilience
- Stress ToleranceÂ
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