Job Description

Closing Date 2024/02/29
Reference Number MMH240209-8
Job Title Azure Architect
Position Type Permanent
Role Family Information Technology
Cluster Group Digital and Technology Office
Remote Opportunity Some of the time
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Introduction

Through our client-facing brands the Momentum Metropolitan Group, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables businesses and people from walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.
We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and rewards their employees and members. Through our own network of advisors or via independent brokers and utilizing new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides financial solutions for people, communities, and businesses. Visit us at www.momentummetropolitan.co.za
Role Purpose

This role is positioned within the cloud business office of the MMH Cloud Centre of Excellence, working together with business unit architects and IT leadership across the group with a focus across the domains of technology, data, business, application of architecture in the cloud. As a custodian of cloud for the MMH group you will be working at the forefront of driving, modernizing, and maturing the adoption of the cloud for MMH. The Solution Architect for Cloud COE is responsible for working closely with our IT Managed Services Partners and our business stakeholders to Technically Design, Implement and Support our portfolio of Cloud Services, with key focus given to AWS and Azure, AWS & Azure DEVOPS, Container Technology and cloud native services, part of the technology practice, youll assess, shape, and deliver cloud solutions that will help our development studios launch products faster in the market, but adhering to the highest quality standards and information security guidelines. Consulting, leading, developing, and automating business solutions will be some of responsibilities of this role and requires a candidate with a solid history of Cloud engineering, cloud migrations, platform, and application architecture.
Requirements

• Extensive technical experience in distributed systems and deploying of large complex applications in the Azure Cloud.

• Minimum of 2 years Azure experience and 5 years relevant enterprise IT experience

• Azure Certification and training

• Sound knowledge of immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code concepts

• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals.

• Have a solid understanding and practical experience of automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC.

• Ansible (preferred)

• Terraform (preferred)

• Understanding of Software Development (preferred)

• Azure expertise (essential)

• AWS working knowledge (essential)

• Scripting languages - Json, PowerShell, and python (essential)

• DevOps toolsets - Jenkins, arm templates (essential)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, operations engineers, architects to understand complex product requirements and translate them into solution architectures & automated solutions.

• Occasionally facilitate and sometimes lead the weekly Cloud Chapter sessions.

• Create and implement reusable automation for cloud platforms to be used by other teams designed to increase productivity.

• Collaborate with colleagues to support and improve security, governance, architecture, systems, processes, standards, and tools.

• Participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud.

• Act as a key stakeholder to explain and teach complex ideas to audiences with varying levels of understanding across:

• Business

• Architectures

• Executives

Competencies

• Business Acumen

• Strategic Thinking

• Client/Stakeholder Commitment

• Diversity and Inclusiveness

• Collaboration

• Motivating and Inspiring

Policy

We are committed to Employment Equity, diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. All appointments are made in alignment to our Employment Equity goals and we encourage people with disabilities to apply.

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