Founded in 1987, Computech Limited is a leading East African systems integrator, providing technology solutions to solve businesses’ most important problems. Celebrating 30 years since inception, Computech Limited has now expanded to have offices in 5 countries and a significant regional footprint. Computech has significant experience across industry sectors, products, and services, with substantial work done in providing professional services, infrastructure solutions, technical support, and technology outsourcing to all sectors.
Job Purpose
The position will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Azure Core and AWS customer base. The role holder will work closely with the Presales/Technical consultants and customers to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Understand customers’ overall cloud portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and scalable cloud solutions leveraging expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, HPC, containers and Infra as a code technologies).
- Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a migration and modernization roadmap with customers using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g., Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g., App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate
- Ensure all solutions leverage the design and operations guidance according to the Well-Architected framework across all pillars, including performance efficiency, security, operational excellence, reliability, and cost optimization.
- Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
- Continuously stay educated on new and emerging technologies/patterns/methodologies and market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
- Configure and manage customer Azure cloud environment.
- Ability to analyze systems and identify problems migrating to Azure cloud.
- Work with clients to ensure smooth and successful implementation, delivery and deployment of complex solutions.
- Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates. Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree computer science, or related field
- At least five (5) years of experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
- Certified Solutions Architect
- Solutions Architect Expert
- Modern Work M365 Fundamentals
- M365 Admin Associate
- Security Certifications is an added advantage
Architecture design
- Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
- Experience with management of cloud infrastructure solutions one or more (i.e., Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, Virtual Desktop, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, HPC, automation, monitoring and Infra as a code technologies)
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, Networking, Security, modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub)
- Prior work experience in other cloud solutions such as Amazon, VMware, Huawei, Google, IBM, Oracle desired
Please apply on the official website using the link(s) below