Responsibilities
- Determine which part of the digital assets will be placed in the cloud and what to run on-premises, select platforms (both hardware and software), and tools that will meet technical requirements, business needs, and security policies.
- Analyse possible threats and vulnerabilities, embed security standards, and monitor adherence to them.
- Design and implement a detailed disaster recovery plan to ensure that all infrastructure elements (data and systems) have efficient backup solutions.
- Managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of through manual processes.
- Plan software updates, system upgrading, and implementation of new elements into the existing IT environment. Create policies and procedures for system integration, control integration testing.
- Gather and analyse performance and health data from different assets such as hosts, servers, databases, virtual machines, containers, etc.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure, including performance reports, runbooks, problem-solving guidelines, infrastructure upgrade plans and technical requirements.
Requirements
- BSc in relevant subject such as Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Systems
- Azure, AWS, or GCP certifications (Azure preferred)
- Utilisation of Infrastructure as Code concepts to aid with consistency of infrastructure deployment and maintenance
- Knowledge of SAP infrastructure architecture preferred
- Windows Server and virtualization tools such as VMWare. Linux experience is a bonus.
- Core networking TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN, Firewalls, WAN accelerators.
- High availability and disaster recovery architecture, communication, and related technologies
- Exposure to ITIL concepts and adoption.
- Experience with regulatory compliance issues, as well as best practices in application and network security.
- Understanding of modern authentication practices such as Windows Hello, Single sign-on etc.