Standard Bank Group
Financial Services
SeniorEngineer,Cloud,AWS
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“Senior Engineer, Cloud, AWS at Standard Bank Group. Skills: AWS, Cloud platform engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code. Be AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert. Ensure AWS cloud environment evolves to best practice”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8-10 years Integration and IT background, 8-10 years full lifecycle design and development, Experience working on AWS cloud platform engineering, Experience deploying and supporting workloads on AWS, AWS enterprise-scale landing zones, AWS Control Tower implementations, Practical experience designing multi-account AWS environments, Experience implementing platform-level IAM, Experience implementing permission boundaries, Experience implementing SCP frameworks, Experience implementing preventative controls, Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, Experience managing shared platform services, Ability to interpret architectural standards, Proven leadership and people-management capability
Nice to Have
AWS and/or Azure cloud environment experience, AWS and/or Azure managed services experience, Experience with AWS networking concepts, Experience with VPC design, Experience with Transit Gateways, Experience with Direct Connect, Experience with Direct Connect Gateway, Experience with hybrid connectivity patterns, Experience with governance guardrails, Experience with account vending pipelines, Experience with EKS, Experience with API Gateway, Experience with service mesh, Experience with secrets management, Experience with centralized observability tooling
What You'll Do.
Be AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert
Ensure AWS cloud environment evolves to best practice
Adopt new AWS features at scale
Enable feature teams to deploy solutions
Be service owner for core AWS platform enablement
Ensure services are compliant to SBG standards
Consult with application teams
Consult with product owners
Partner with AWS architecture team
Engage with AWS enterprise support
Partner with AWS product team
Collaborate across countries
Collaborate across business units
Collaborate across feature teams
Engage with Platform leads
Engage with security leads
Report to relevant forums
Build relationships with 3rd party providers
Manage delivery with 3rd party providers
Manage SLAs with 3rd party providers
Mentor junior cloud engineers
Coordinate engineers on delivery
Guide engineers on delivery
Provide coaching to team
Provide mentoring to team
Develop knowledge sharing plans
Showcase new features
Showcase new services
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Feature teams; Application teams; Peers; Platform leads; Security leads; 3rd party providers; Junior cloud engineers
Communication Scope
Articulating Information; Challenging Ideas; Interacting with People
Process & Methodology
Agile, Lean frameworks
Full Job Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. To be the AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert across multiple cloud capabilities linked to AWS platform engineering, including AI, DevOps, Compute, networking and databases. The individual will also ensure that the Standard Bank AWS cloud environment is continuously evolving to best practice, adopting new AWS features at scale and enabling feature teams to deploy innovative solutions for our customers. The AWS senior cloud engineer will also be the service owner for core AWS platform enablement capabilities, ensuring our services are compliant to SBG standards, principles, policies, and regulatory obligations in a manner that enables our business strategy. The AWS senior cloud engineer will also be consulting partner for our application teams that have deployed workloads in cloud and also to product owners across the organization. The role includes partnering and engage proactively with AWS architecture team, AWS enterprise support and the AWS product team/ services team to ensure we keep up with new AWS features and service launches, while continuously improving and evolving existing AWS services. The role also involves collaborating and operating across several countries, business units and feature teams across the Standard Bank Group. The AWS senior cloud engineer will be required to proactively engage with peers (including the Platform and security leads), internal stakeholders a
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