Infrastructure Architect - Gauteng, South Africa - Apex Services

Description

Responsibilities

An Infrastructure Architect with experience in leading and implementing cloud, IaaS, and SaaS architectures for our SAP Migration customers with a focus on Security and Infrastructure best practices.

This position requires someone with strong business acumen along with technical depth to assist with architecture, implementation, and domain migrations for our enterprise customers.

You are accountable to scope, assess, design, and deploy AWS Infrastructure in support of an SAP solution landscape. Extensive background in developing complex infrastructure layouts including compute, networking, storage, and security.

Ability to recognize design and deployment best practices, understand infrastructure tooling including firewalls, anti-virus, centralized OS management, and automation components.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Selfstarter, who can work independently as well as lead teams of infrastructure engineers
• Demonstrated ability to teach and upskill more junior members of the infrastructure team
• Working directly with clients and project teams to gather information to implement processes and technology that support various technical and business functions
• The ability to independently run face to face customer design/engagement workshops
• Have a track record of enterpriselevel customer engagements
• Handson engineering, configuration of cloud infrastructures using various automation tools
• Detailed knowledge of automated provisioning and DevOps tooling
• Demonstrated involvement in projects that span the lifecycle from planning and design, through deployment, configuration, and migration
• Technical understanding of AWS IaaS, SaaS & PaaS offerings
• Indepth experience in AWS compute, storage, network, load balancer, and container management
• Experience with SUSE, RHEL, and Windows operating systems
• Experience with Networking principles and implementation
• Experience with system and environment hardening
• Ability to work effectively in pressurized situations and can be relied upon to deliver, irrespective of circumstances
• Develop and refine infrastructure and security checklists in existing environments to ensure continued compliance
• Currently hold a minimum of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification

Desired Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (preference to be given)
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional (preference to be given)
• AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
• AWS Developer Associate
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
• AWS Security Specialty

Salary:
R396, R1,359,583.18 per year


Application Question(s):

• How many years of experience in Infrastructure Architect?
• Are you South African Citizen?
• What is your salary expectation in your currency?
• Kindly share your updated resume in English version.

Experience:

• SAP: 5 years (preferred)
• AWS: 5 years (preferred)