Cloud Architect (Renewable Contract)

Job Type: Contract
Posted: almost 6 years ago
Contact: Alice Tong
Discipline:
Reference: 185899_1530273071

Reporting to the Deputy Director - Strategy and Architecture, the appointee will be responsible for the following duties:

  • Contribute to the ongoing development of cloud strategy and identify the appropriate strategic solutions or tactical implementations
  • Define, implement, and continuous update principles, policies, and governance to form best practices, standards, and guidelines for designing and implementing new cloud-native solutions
  • Design and build automated workflows/tools to enforce policies, best practices and cost controls, andto facilitate the automated setup, configuration and deployment of workloads in the cloud
  • Conduct technical review for service provisioning, recommendation, planning and support
  • Define and lead proof of concepts and pilots to support the use of cloud computing
  • Monitor and oversee all platform change management, security, and release/deployment activities
  • Ensure performance and reliability as the cloud platform scales, and participate in remediation and continuous improvement through operational metrics and effective countermeasures
  • Obtain and maintain an in-depth understanding of MS Azure, AWS and other cloud technologies to ensure all appropriate options are considered to support business initiatives

Requirements

  • Relevant university degree and further applicable professional qualifications and certifications
  • Committed to best practices and striving for the elimination of manual operational processes to promote a DevOps oriented software delivery model
  • Ability to communicate technical solutions to non-technical personnel required
  • Fast-learning, energetic, ability to perform in a challenging environment with evolving technologies
  • Effective verbal and written communication in English; fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin highly desirable
  • Experience in managing and scaling AWS and MS Azure IaaS/PasS and deploying large scale public cloud applications
  • Experience in cloud operations, service automation, cloud administration & management, and performance tuning
  • Experience with SOAP and REST APIs to support integration of infrastructure, cloud and platform as a service technology
  • Experience with containers and container orchestration, Kubernetes and Docker, including lifecycle management of containers

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