Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance.

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Specialist Infrastructure Solution Architect

Job Type

Full Time

Qualification

BA/BSc/HND

Experience

5 years

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

ICT / Computer

Key Responsibilities

• Focused on the technical solution design and implementation verification of the various components of the solution architecture.
• Requires a high level of in-depth expertise.
• Closely aligned to relevant technical SME’s for collaboration.
• Responsible for the preparation of artefacts for operational handover.
• Responsible for informing stakeholders about potential threats and misalignment of solutions, including areas for improvement and optimization.

Minimum Skills & Experience Required:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in Infrastructure Architecture
• Infrastructure architecture and/or infrastructure solution design in a banking or similar large corporate environment.
• Working knowledge of server hardware and virtualisation technology.
• Working knowledge of server operating systems (RHEL, Windows Server).
• Working knowledge of storage systems (SAN and IP Storage).
• Working knowledge of data centre networking (DNS, GSLB, IP Routing).
• Gathering business and application requirements and translating that into an infrastructure architecture/design artefact.
• Hybrid Cloud (e.g AWS, Azure, VMware, Azure Local, RedHat OpenShift, Nutanix, HCS - Huawei Cloud Stack).
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Windows Server.
• IBM Flash Storage.
• Pure Storage.
• Dell PowerScale (Isilon) ECS, PowerFlex.

• Focused on the technical solution design and implementation verification of the various components of the solution architecture.
• Requires a high level of in-depth expertise.
• Closely aligned to relevant technical SME’s for collaboration.
• Responsible for the preparation of artefacts for operational handover.
• Responsible for informing stakeholders about potential threats and misalignment of solutions, including areas for improvement and optimization.

• Infrastructure architecture and/or infrastructure solution design in a banking or similar large corporate environment.
• Working knowledge of server hardware and virtualisation technology.
• Working knowledge of server operating systems (RHEL, Windows Server).
• Working knowledge of storage systems (SAN and IP Storage).
• Working knowledge of data centre networking (DNS, GSLB, IP Routing).
• Gathering business and application requirements and translating that into an infrastructure architecture/design artefact.
• Hybrid Cloud (e.g AWS, Azure, VMware, Azure Local, RedHat OpenShift, Nutanix, HCS - Huawei Cloud Stack).
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Windows Server.
• IBM Flash Storage.
• Pure Storage.
• Dell PowerScale (Isilon) ECS, PowerFlex.

• BA/BSc/HND