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Cloud Platform Engineer at Fosad Consulting

Fosad ConsultingLagos, Nigeria Cloud Computing
Full Time
Fosad Consulting Ltd is a business support services firm with offerings in Human Resource Management, Immigrations and Real Estate Consulting. We leverage our expertise and strategic alliances to support businesses. Our proposition is based on a deep understanding of the drivers of high performing businesses and the required business solutions that supports it. We work with clients to support their non-core business tasks to strategically position them for business success.

Job Description

  • We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Cloud CoE team who are collectively responsible for designing, deploying, managing, and operating the cloud infrastructure platform to support applications and workloads.
  • You will utilize your expertise across major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and OCI combined with knowledge of automation tools and infrastructure-as-code practices to engineer modular, secure, scalable, and highly available foundations for cloud-hosted systems.
  • Engineer a secure, highly available, and autoscaling infrastructure on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and OCI.
  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure reference architectural blueprints/patterns, infrastructure components, shared services, and provisioning/deployment mechanisms.
  • Maintain and support organization’s cloud management platform which provides governance, access controls and automation capabilities.
  • Leverage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies along with native cloud services to simplify infrastructure provisioning and configuration while maximizing reuse and minimizing duplication.
  • Monitor key metrics related to capacity, performance, availability, and optimization of cloud resources using native and third-party tools.
  • Monitor infrastructure through robust logging, metrics collection, analysis and alerting strategy.
  • Analyze infrastructure usage trends and costs to recommend optimizations and right-sizing strategies.
  • Develop technical standards, policies, and procedures for lifecycle management of cloud resources.
  • Work closely across teams like software engineering, security, and analytics to coordinate sharing, integration and management of infrastructure services.
  • Collaborate with infosec and app teams on security controls.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of new cloud services, features, security best practices and their application for business workloads.
  • Respond promptly to troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure related incidents and service requests

Requirements
Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science.

Required skills:

  • 3-5 years in the same or very similar role.
  • 3-5 years hands-on experience with cloud platform infrastructure deployment/management.
  • 3-5 years hands ono experience with Azure, AWS, OCI (in this order of preference).
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure and cloud security principles and best practice.
  • Solid understanding of core infrastructure technologies including Linux, Database, Networking, virtualization, storage.
  • Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates)
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and end-users alike.

Nice to have skills:

  • Multi-cloud experience supporting workloads on AWS + Azure or AWS + OCI.
  • Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (AKS, EKS).
  • Infrastructure compliance experience (HIPAA, PCI, SOC2).

Soft skills:

  • Excellent analytical and problem management skills.
  • Dedicated approach to providing a best-in-class service.
  • Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
  • Collaborative and team player.
  • Ability to successfully anticipate issues or challenges without being specifically directed.
  • Strong ability to meet target deadlines and manage time effectively.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

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