Cloud Platform Engineer at Fosad Consulting Limited

Fosad Consulting, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

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.

Application Closing Date
25th April, 2024.