Infrastructure Planning & Capacity Management Team Lead
DESCRIPTION
We
are pleased to announce the following Position in the Digital
IT Department within the Technology Division. In
keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets
the criteria indicated below.Brief Description
Reporting to the Research and Design Tech Lead the
role holder will be responsible for scouting, developing & testing
prototypes & piloting, refining and adopting new technologies to solve
current problems, improving operation efficiencies and to create new platforms
that support new business opportunities. Working with partners, Project teams,
Squads as well as virtual IT delivery teams to implement various projects and
business deliverables. Break down complex requirements into simple trackable
tasks. Be committed to high quality output and delivery on time.
Responsibilities
The main duties are:
- Scout new technologies and vendors to enable
innovation and identify technical enablers
- Developing and testing prototypes
- Piloting, refining and adopting new technologies and
partner solutions
- Responsible for Solutions Design and specifications
with Quarterly target focus
- Support setting up of crowdsourcing initiatives to
generate innovative ideas and concepts
- Coordinate with other engineers, management and
partners on research and design work
- Responsible for research and design initiatives by
sourcing, developing and driving new technology capabilites.
- Responsible for delivering 70% of the projects on
time
- Ensure agile is implemented in all of the projects
- Maintain an accurate registry of all research and
design projects with various statuses and ensure stakeholders are
appraised at all times
- Align with business product leads & PMO on
project KPI’s, milestones and timelines
Leadership:
- Attend relevant meetings to align with business and
customer needs needs
- Regular team and one-on-one engagements
- Build the team skillset as per digital skills
priority areas.
- Team performance management
- Provide budget inputs for research and design
solutions.
- Drive technology and platform discussions
- Weekly Delivery reporting to BU HoDs and Senior
Managers on the status of their deliverables
Business
Analysis:
- Responsible for gathering, detailing and documenting
all business requirements
- Development of use cases that align and guide
research and design initiatives
- Ensure test plans cover all aspects of Business
Requirements and existing business rules
Solutions
Design:
- Responsible for Solutions Design to meet business
requirements and non-functional requirements
- Drive new solutions leveraging technology that
inform evolution
- Collaboratively oversee the development/configuration
of solutions as per agreed designs
- Provide advisory input into all new system
considerations.
Qualifications
- BSc /B-Tech in computer Science/Electrical and
communication/ Telecoms, Engineering, or a similar field.
- At Least 5 years’ experience as cloud engineer,
Systems administrator, Network administrator or analyst in a multifaceted
business environment with integrated/mixed windows and major UNIX/Linux
server environment.
- Above 5 years’ experience in a busy IT or
Telecommunications environment –Involved in Strategy Modeling, Planning,
Design and Optimization of compute and storage infrastructure
- AWS and GCP Cloud knowledge and deployment
models.
- Experience in working with Terraform, Ansible
infrastructure as code platform to automate various aspects of
infrastructure configuration, provisioning, and management
- Experience working with agile methodologies, such as
Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD and TDD.
- Strong data analytical skills, analytical thinking,
attention to details and ability to identify solutions to complex
problems.
- Great Stakeholder management skills
- Leadership and coaching skills
- Demonstrate excellent Planning and organizing skills
- Team spirit and good communication abilities
- Proven Track record in delivering results
- Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication
and leadership skills
- Certification in any of the following Systems and
Network or related trainings is an added advantage
- AWS Certified Solution Architect certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Terraform Associate certification
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced
Automation
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified
- Network certification e.g., CCNA, CCNP
- UNIX/Linux certification
- VMware certification e.g., VCP
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
How to Apply
