ICIPE Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs in Kenya

icipe is a pan-African and non-profit Centre of Excellence for research and development and capacity building in insect science and its applications. Its mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food and nutritional security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research and capacity building.

Since its establishment in 1970, icipe has become a significant contributor to science and innovation required to meet the health and food security challenges of sub-Saharan Africa. The Centre has achieved this status by developing alternative and environmentally friendly pest and vector management technologies and products that are effective, selective, non-polluting, non-resistance inducing, and are affordable to resource-limited rural and urban communities.

icipe is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with offices in Ethiopia and Uganda, a major station on the shores of Lake Victoria, and several other field stations in Kenya. Employing close to 500 international and national staff, icipe also has approximately 150 graduate students who contribute to its research portfolio annually. The Centre currently has operations in more than 40 African countries, and thriving partnerships with
universities and research organizations across the world. (www.icipe.org)

icipe seeks to recruit a Cloud Solutions Architect Data in the Management, Modelling and Geo-Information (DMMG) Unit. The position is tenable in Nairobi at the icipe Duduville campus. This is two-year contract, renewable subject to continued project needs, funding for the position, and performance of the staff member.

This is a nationally recruited position. A competitive compensation package will be offered to the right candidate. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Overall purpose of the job

The Cloud Solutions Architect will develop scalable and cost-effective architectural solutions for on-premises and cloud-managed services to icipe’s 4-H paradigm (Environmental, Plant, Human, and Animal Health Themes). The position-holder will also be responsible for engineering elastic and interoperable solutions that inter-play with the research data management and archiving infrastructure.

Specific Duties

The

successful candidate will be expected to:

▪ Design and deploy scalable, cost-effective, interoperable, and robust cloud architectural solutions that adapt to the dynamic business and research data needs.

▪ Assess deployed system architectures and those under implementation and, working with technical staff, reengineer optimal solutions and products.

▪ Deploy and document application programming interfaces (APIs) in microservice architectures.

▪ Migrate on-premises and off-premises software, data, and services.

▪ Develop web applications, preferably in Node/React JS, Django/Flask, or any other relevant front, and backend web programming languages.

▪ Write Linux scripts and commands and containerisation of applications.

Requirements/Qualifications

▪ BSc/BA in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related field from a recognised university.

▪ Related certification(s) in cloud managed services is an added advantage.

▪ Knowledge and skills in cloud-managed services, preferably in Azure and AWS.

▪ Good understanding of architecting and building secure and cost-effective on-premises and cloud
enterprise systems.

▪ Good understanding of Agile methodologies.

▪ Knowledge and skills in big data analytics.

▪ Good understanding of IT security, data infrastructure, governance, and user-centered design practices.

▪ Sound knowledge of various operating systems (Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows) and database
management systems (Oracle, Ms. SQL, MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL DBs).

▪ Experience in installing end-user applications and supporting end users working on high-performance computing (HPC) systems is an added advantage.

▪ At least 1 year of work experience in a relevant area.

▪ Previous experience at an international/ regional research organization is an added advantage.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; ICIPE Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs in Kenya

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