• If you are a technically minded individual who enjoys interacting and working alongside people. A self-driven person with exceptional attention to detail and an interest in automation and integration then keep reading…
• The main responsibility of this role is the development, management and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure. Ensuring industry standards are implemented with good governance in mind.
• The reporting directly to the Head of IT Strategy and Architecture, this role works alongside the wider DevOps team to ensure resilience, performance and reliability across cloud enterprise platforms, services and applications

Duties and Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• Manage all cloud based infrastructure classified as enterprise infrastructure
• Manage business intelligence infrastructure
• Manage infrastructure of acquired systems
• Ensure all infrastructure is built and maintained using enterprise standards
• Ensure all infrastructure is managed with Infrastructure as Code or similar
• Proactively enhance and refine monitoring and alerting systems
• Ensure that all systems are highly-available
• Ensure redundancy, failover and recovery of systems
• Ensure regular backups and build automated backup recovery testing
• Perform Disaster Recovery testing and identify potential improvements
• Ensure that Recovery Time Objectives are met
• Ensure systems are regularly patched and upgraded, with critical and security patches applied as soon as they are available
• Ensure cost optimisation of infrastructure and identify ways to optimise performance
• Ensure high-level design documentation and system diagrams are produced
• Collaborate and communicate effectively
• Attend and actively contribute in all relevant meetings in-line with agile methodology
• Knowledge and skill share and with DevOps engineers in the team
• To manage own professional and self-development

Key Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
• Related tertiary qualification (Desirable)
• 5+ years’ experience in the DevOps and/or SysAdmin space
• Experience managing IaaS – AWS (Primary), Azure (Secondary)
• Solid experience in Linux administration (Essential)
• Experience in scripting in at least one language
• Experience working with VMs and Containers
• Experience with building PCI / ISO27001 systems (Desirable)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform (Primary), CloudFormation (Secondary)
• Knowledge of backups, retention, and DR testing
• Knowledge of network management: DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies and VPNs
• Knowledge of web servers, databases, messaging queues
• Knowledge of managing CI/CD, monitoring and alerting applications
• Knowledge of database management
• Knowledge of agile and TDD methodology
• Experience in Banking and/or FinTech sector is favourable

Additional Skills:

• Multitasking skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Teamworking and collaboration