(Hybrid)​

A system engineering background and the ability to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement is essential.

Provide technical thought leadership to meet the business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption. Have conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of some of the following areas:

· Data centre hardware infrastructure (servers, networking, storage)

· Server operating systems internals (Linux, Windows, Solaris)

· Security technologies such as firewalls, HSMs, proxy servers, IDS/IPS, network segmentation tools · Server virtualization, for example VMware, Xen, Hyper-V or KVM

· Identity Access Management (e.g. Active Directory, LDAP, Privileged Access Management tools) · Middleware technologies such as Websphere, Tomcat, Java, Messaging, Application Server or Web server

· Storage technologies e.g. EMC/Pure Storage / SAN – FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SRDF; NetApp NAS, CIFS, NFS; Object storage

· IBM Mainframe technologies, zOS, CICS, MQ, IWS, OPS/MVS

· Networking (e.g. Cisco/F5 devices, TCP/UDP, Broadcast/Multicast, LAN/WAN, SDN)

· Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus)

· Automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Terraform

· Database technologies e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, NoSQL datastores

· High availability and BCDR techniques such as clustering (VCS & MSCS), data replication etc · Collaboration tools (e.g. MS Teams, Confluence, Jira)

· Cloud technologies such as Google GCP, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, as well as APIs, Kubernetes and the ecosystem