Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary

As a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in SITA's Airports Portfolio you will lead technical design, development and maintenance of the Azure Cloud platform and related services (using existing and emerging technologies) to enable the modernisation and efficient delivery of services to our customers. We are seeking a talented and experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join our portfolio platform team - dedicated to developing and deploying our cloud solutions in the best possible way now and into the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Key contributor to the design, planning and implementation of our Azure cloud solutions and services to ensure optimum cloud performance and reliability across our cloud infrastructure, building in continuous process improvement and CI/CD pipelines.
• Works as part of a broader team of problem solvers helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution via automation.
• Acts as a key liaison with senior technology stakeholders and partners to ensure full delivery of software releases product roadmaps.
• Interfaces with Developers Engineers Architects Ops and Support staff to design develop and implement cost effective Cloud Solutions using IaaS/PaaS/SaaS so that it is flexible extensible elastic secure and reliable at large scale.
• Recommends and participates in the selection of new technologies and technical processes working closely with the Architecture Team to implement the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the organization.
• Creates re-usable platform components for products, develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines from development right though to production.
• Works within agile methodologies, following SITA coding guidelines and practices for all technical processes and documenting solutions.
• Mentoring and guiding junior team members on IaC practices, Kubernetes operations, and Azure platform engineering.
• Provides expert level support to Operational teams.
• Issue technical recommendations and guidelines for implementation and support.

Experience

• 6+ years Cloud Platform Engineering experience
• Experience designing, configuring implementing infrastructure and network solutions in Azure.
• Experience with LAN WAN networking, TCP/IP, load balancing principles.
• Experience with hub and spoke and landing zones.
• Experience with automating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience with production grade AKS clusters and associated challenges.
• Experience with creating application and infrastructure monitoring solutions.
• Experience creating and delivering Cloud Platform technology roadmaps.

Knowledge Skills

• Ability to be the lead technical role on complex projects overseeing requirement analysis through implementation and/or support.
• Understand the customers business objectives for assigned projects.
• Coordinate multiple technical streams of work to produce a complete solution with high-level designs.
• Understand the concept of IT security and its application to computer systems architecture.
• Sound knowledge of system integration and hardware.
• Sound understanding of agile methodologies and practices.
• Understand and articulate trade-offs and risks with technical choices.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking VNet peering, NSGs, UDR, NAT Gateway, private DNS, service endpoints.
• Experience in managing and provisioning infrastructure through code (IaC).
• Ability to quickly learn and understand new technologies or concepts, review functional and technical requirements, raising potential issues and participating actively in design discussions.
• You thrive in a team environment, excellent communication skills, with the ability to work independently as a member of the team.

Professional Competencies

• Agile Methodologies
• Capacity Planning Management
• Cloud Computing
• Information Security Management
• Innovation
• Performance Measurement and Tuning
• Requirements Analysis
• Standards Procedures Policies
• Systems Thinking

Core Competencies

• Communication
• Customer Focus
• Leading Execution
• Results Orientation
• Teamwork

Education Qualifications

University degree or equivalent preferably in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or similar. Where applicable a recognised professional qualification is desirable.

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