Responsibilitiesu202F

• Maintain a deep understanding of the Alliance’s vision and strategic plan to ensure that cloud and hybrid initiatives align with organizational goals.
• Provide guidance to systems analysts, IT engineers, and architects to facilitate effective architectural decisions.
• Design, develop and implement integrated cloud/on-premises systems that meet operational, security and scalability requirements.
• Develop and maintain documentation of the organization’s cloud architecture and infrastructure while enforcing cloud technology standards for consistent, high-quality implementation.
• Develop and manage a comprehensive capacity plan for cloud infrastructure, ensuring optimal resource allocation and document investment plans identifying cost-reduction opportunities.
• Research about emerging cloud technologies and recommend solutions that enhance infrastructure flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
• Continuously monitor cloud performance, develop and execute test plans, and recommend improvements to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
• Work closely with developers teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues during deployment and ensure smooth integration, to automate repetitive tasks, reduce manual interventions, and enhance system reliability.
• Provide technical support across cloud applications and services, managing complex technical tasks and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with research teams to ensure the long-term cloud strategy remains aligned with platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure developments.
• Ensure that security measures are implemented within cloud operations and collaborate with security specialists as needed.
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers, ensuring their offerings meet operational needs, and guide cloud cost management to optimize resource usage.
• Ensure the Alliance applications are always in a deployable state by designing and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, using Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, CloudFormation, etc.) to automate the provisioning of cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Implement and configure monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios) to ensure high availability and performance of applications and services.
• Manage incident responses and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
• Support security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and compliance policies.
• Provide training and support team members on new tools, processes, or architectural changes.

Qualifications and requirements

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic engineering, or related fields.
• Specialization, training courses, or certifications in Cloud Computing, Systems Architecture, AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional., AWS Specialty’s certifications, Azure and Google Cloud Platform certifications.u202F
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in anu202Finternational organization, research, or academic environment in DevOps, system administration, or cloud operations.
• Advanced English level (oral and written).
• Comprehensive understanding of multi-tier architectures (web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, storage solutions).
• Knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases.
• Proficiency with message queuing systems and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technologies.
• Familiarity with Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for optimized content distribution.
• Experience with LAN/WAN networking technologies (route tables, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, OSI models).
• Strong understanding of RESTful web services and data formats (XML, JSON).
• Proficiency in automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Programming and scripting skills in Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD platforms.
• Experience managing server infrastructures with tools like VMware or ProxMox.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, from development to deployment.
• Work experience in information and application security (security mechanisms and tools).
• Expertise in system performance tuning and managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of security concepts (public key encryption, access credentials, certificate-based authentication).

Competences

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from diverse national and cultural backgrounds.
• Flexibility and adaptability to thrive under tight deadlines and changing priorities.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills, ensuring efficient task management and issue resolution.
• Client-focused orientation, demonstrating a strong commitment to delivering high-quality service.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, taking full ownership of tasks and responsibilities within assigned areas.
• Willingness to work outside regular business hours when urgent situations arise that require immediate attention.
• Results-driven with a proactive learning mindset.