Network and Cloud Engineer

Project Overview And Role

Data.FI is a multi-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics. Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose Of Position

Palladium is seeking to recruit a skilled Network and Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain its cloud infrastructure. The Network and Cloud Engineer will be responsible for cloud infrastructure architecting, development, and administration. He/she will ensure efficiency in the design, deployment, migration, management and monitoring of cloud resources. The Network and Cloud Engineer will maintain good documentation to cloud architecture, configurations and policies and will also support automation of pipelines as required. The Network and Cloud engineer will liaise with Palladium’s Regional Hub on information security and maintain fidelity to data security standards on all system infrastructure.

The Network and Cloud Engineer will report to the Senior DevOps Manager and work in collaboration with the Data Use and Analytics, and the Business Analytics teams. This is a full-time position with a contract for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding.

Location: Abuja

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and creation and infrastructure maintenance.
• Deploy new applications to the cloud and migrate existing applications while ensuring that migration processes are seamless and do not disrupt ongoing operations.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design.
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with security policies and best practices in cloud and information security.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.
• Work as an integral member of the cloud platform team to plan, prioritize, recommend and implement security requirements as part of the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC).
• Recommend and implement security best practices for cloud platforms and automate compliance with cloud security baselines (e.g. CIS Benchmarks).
• Implementation of automated security tooling (e.g. within a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline) to validate security requirements and identify potential issues. Review outputs from security tools and practices, and filtering and prioritizing these into security stories that can be understood and actioned by the delivery teams.
• Verify the implementation of security principles, architectural patterns, and requirements. Drive the adoption of cyber security practices (e.g. vulnerability management, threat modelling etc.) within Agile delivery teams.
• Support wider cloud platform design and development activities.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, network engineering, or a related field.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner, Linux, and Cyber Security certifications would be an added advantage.
• At least five (5) years of professional experience as a network and cloud engineer, directly supporting the development and implementation of mission critical systems.
• Experience in cloud solutions, network architecture, automating infrastructure deployment, and systems implementation.
• Deep understanding of common cloud services and infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google cloud, etc).
• Understanding DevOps and CI/CD. Experience with DevOps methods and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of AWS cloud platform and AWS security best practices and use of AWS CLI & SDKs.
• Evidence of direct experience working with web application security defense toolkits (e.g. OWASP Top 10).
• Experience of vulnerability management and application security testing.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, agile development environment.
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
• Good problem-solving skills, with an ability to identify and resolve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Good analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
  
  

Company Overview

About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

You and Your Career - If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have expertise in health informatics, M&E, data analytics, visualization and data use, we are interested in hearing from you.

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