Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 20, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overall purpose of the job
The Cloud Solutions Architect will develop scalable and cost-effective architectural solutions for on-premises and cloud-managed services to icipe’s 4-H paradigm (Environmental, Plant, Human, and Animal Health Themes). The position-holder will also be responsible for engineering elastic and interoperable solutions that inter-play with the research data management and archiving infrastructure.

Specific Duties
The successful candidate will be expected to:
• Design and deploy scalable, cost-effective, interoperable, and robust cloud architectural solutions that adapt to the dynamic business and research data needs.
• Assess deployed system architectures and those under implementation and, working with technical staff,
• reengineer optimal solutions and products.
• Deploy and document application programming interfaces (APIs) in microservice architectures.
• Migrate on-premises and off-premises software, data, and services.
• Develop web applications, preferably in Node/React JS, Django/Flask, or any other relevant front, and backend web programming languages.
• Write Linux scripts and commands and containerisation of applications.

Requirements/Qualifications
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related field from a recognised university.
• Related certification(s) in cloud managed services is an added advantage.
• Knowledge and skills in cloud-managed services, preferably in Azure and AWS.
• Good understanding of architecting and building secure and cost-effective on-premises and cloud enterprise systems.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge and skills in big data analytics.
• Good understanding of IT security, data infrastructure, governance, and user-centered design practices.
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems (Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows) and database management systems (Oracle, Ms. SQL, MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL DBs).
• Experience in installing end-user applications and supporting end users working on high-performance computing (HPC) systems is an added advantage.
• At least 1 year of work experience in a relevant area.
• Previous experience at an international/ regional research organization is an added advantage.
Closing date: 31 May 2022

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Use the link below to apply.
http://recruit.icipe.org/description_of_assignment/displayRecord?id=388

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