Senior Specialist IM DC & Cloud Engineer

My client is globally acclaimed mining firm and a leading primary producer of platinum group metals with mining, smelting and refining operations. This role is responsible for ensuring that Data Centre and Cloud infrastructure enables teams to easily and successfully adopt data centre and cloud infrastructure and platform services. The role is involved in design and implementation activities that result in new or improved cloud-related capabilities, and it brings skills and expertise to such areas as cloud technical architecture (for a workload’s use of infrastructure as a service [IaaS] and platform as a service [PaaS] components); automating cloud management tasks, provisioning and configuration management; and other aspects involved in preparing and optimizing cloud solutions. The role will also be responsible for defining and maintaining FinOps governance and enablement capabilities and Microsoft Active Directory/Entra ID administration.

This role profile acts as a guide to the role only and additional work outcomes may be required to be performed by the incumbent

• Providing technical support for AD/Entra ID services and resolve service-related issues through research and troubleshooting and working with Microsoft.
• Implementation of industry leading practices around AD/Entra

3. People & Teams:
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.

4. Compliance:
• Ensure compliance to internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.

Role relationships
Direct reports
• Contracted resources

Key internal relationships
• Head of IM
• IM leadership members and direct reports
• IM PMO
• Onsite Support teams
• Other Product Specialists
• Other Business Stakeholders

Key external relationships
• Key service providers and Contractors/Consultants
• Regional vendors

Capability required to do the role
Mental processing ability
LoW II: Diagnosis: Monitors and improves operational processes.
This work requires the ability to draw on data in order to make a diagnosis. Then decide between alternative methods to address individual case(s). Recommends improvements to processes/systems.

Knowledge
Qualifications
Prescribed
An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors degree/Diploma or equivalent) in relevant IM Discipline

Desirable
It would be advantageous to have a postgraduate qualification in the related IM discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity.

Certifications
Prescribed
Valid EB/Code 08 driver’s licence

Desirable
Registration with professional bodies

Technical knowledge
Experience:
5 – 7 years working experience in a similar role

Technical knowledge (experience) required for role:
• Cloud migration project experience
• Securing cloud platforms and cloud workloads in collaboration with security teams.
• Experience with Azure and AWS cloud service providers is essential

Technical skills
• Advanced: Cloud provider frameworks (e.g., Well-Architected)
• Advanced: Operating systems (e.g., Windows and Linux including scripting experience)
• Advanced: Identity and access management (e.g., Active Directory/Azure AD, Group Policy, SSO, cloud RBAC and hierarchy and federation)
• Proficient: Analyzing cloud spending and optimizing resources
• Proficient: Experience where immutable infrastructure – i.e. Infrastructure-as-code – have been used
• Proficient: Event-based architectures and associated infrastructure patterns
• Expert: Implementing highly available systems, using multi-AZ and multi-region approaches
• Proficient: Container management
• Proficient: Virtualization platforms
• Proficient: Database technologies and caching (e.g., Postgres, MSSQL, NoSQL, Redis, CDN)

Social process skills
Self-awareness, and of behaviours that successfully drive or hinder team performance and collaboration