About the job
Accountabilities and Key Roles:
- Assist in managing projects, and plans to execute the strategies, architecture and Roadmap for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud adoption, rollouts, and continuous upgrades.
- Assist in Planning, Optimizing, and Managing annual capital and operational budget for Cloud infrastructure and Container Platforms.
- Perform market research, evaluation, selection, acquisition, implementation, and operation of latest Cloud Technologies, Container Platforms, and Cloud Management Solutions.
- Implement Cloud infrastructure management and Security solutions to enable centralized Inventory Management, Configuration Management, Control Compliance Management, Security, Patch Management, Performance Tuning, and Health Monitoring.
- Design and implement cloud service monitoring and control effectiveness KPIs.
- Maintain governance and compliance/ alignment with latest industry standards, benchmarks, and regulations across Cloud Deployments and Container Platforms.
- Implement and manage end-to-end enterprise technologies to fulfill the digital transformation requirements, and business units expansion requirements including: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, SAP, Microsoft Office 365, Google Anthos, Red hat Open Shift. ISTIO Service Mesh, Container Platform Security, Cloud Workload Security, Cloud Access Security Broker, Multi-Factor Authentication, Federation Services, Identity and Access Management, Prometheus, Grafana, Security Information Event Management, Security Orchestration – Automation – and Response.
- Assist in managing Cloud infrastructure and Container Platforms licensing, Billing, and lifecycle management.
- Provide advanced technical support, critical problem resolution, and manage vendor support tickets.
- Manage end-to-end Security Information Management and Security Orchestration-Automation-and-Response solutions including integration with all systems, developing / implementing use cases, and developing / implementing operational workflows.
- Assist in Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms consultancy, sizing, design, provisioning, and hardening for all systems and services to ensure performance, high-availability, resiliency, operational excellence and quality of service.
- Implement, rollout, and upgrade software solutions and security agents across Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms.
- Manage capacity planning, scalability, and availability SLA’s of Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms across all countries.
- Implement, and Adhere to Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms Policies, Procedures, Guidelines, and Standards according to industry best practices and inline with regulatory compliance requirements.
- Assist in defining operations, configuration, and hardening standards for Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms.
- Address emerging hardening, vulnerability management, information security, and compliance requirements for Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms.
- Assist in mentoring and coaching junior staff, and provide knowledge transfer.
Job Requirements:
Education:
- Graduated degree in a technical discipline (e.g. computer engineering/computer science)
Experience:
- 5+ years in similar positions in a major financial institution or in a banking solution vendor, focused on Cloud Infrastructure and Container Platforms Management.
Competencies:
- Diverse knowledge in technology trends, industry best practices, reference architecture, benchmarks, regulations and standards.
- Diverse Technical knowledge in various infrastructure, resiliency, replication, and disaster recovery orchestration technologies.
- Fluent in English and Arabic.
- Presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Stakeholder management.
- Portfolio and Program Management.
- Budget planning and management.
- IT and Management Strategy.
- Analytical Skills.