What will you do?

• This role is responsible for managing and overseeing for the people, processes and technologies delivering Sanlam’s Directory & Logical Access Platforms & Services.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Accountable for implementing and operating Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services in accordance with the business’s reliability and capacity requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers and architects to understand requirements and constraints.
• Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms.
• Collaborate with Security Architecture as is applicable to Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services.
• Collaborate with IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Role Based Access platforms and services teams.
• Design and implement procedures and best practices in Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services.
• Accountable and responsible for budgets, contracts and procurement of services and software applicable to Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services.
• Research and recommend policies and procedures to protect information assets from unauthorized or accidental modification, destruction or disclosure. 
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technology, emerging threats, and best practices in Directory Services, Privileged Access, Cloud Identity, RBAC and security.
• Responsible for Appointing, developing, and retaining Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services talent.
• Ensure appropriate standards, patterns, best practices and operational maturity models are in place and monitored.
  Mentor team and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services Product Development Lifecycle.   Continuously improve and refine processes, procedures and system development life cycle frequently to deliver business value to the business.
• Responsible for implementing and maturing Agile and DevOps tooling and practices for the Directory and Logical Access Platforms and Services environment.
• Prioritize efforts with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric
• A relevant IT qualification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification preferable.

Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience in technology roles.
• 5 years in solution architecture and systems design.
• Experience leading and managing a team.
• Experience working in a hybrid- and multi-cloud environment (AWS preferred) and cloud technologies (AWS & Azure technologies preferred).
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience in cloud security concepts.
• Experience operating and engineering solutions in a Cloud-focussed organization.
• Proven experience delivering and managing Directory & Logical Access Platforms & Services, Access Management & authorization solutions (RBAC, PBAC, ABAC, IDP), Identity Governance and/or Identity and Access Management technologies.
• Proven experience delivering long-term, repeatable IaC solutions into an overall CI/CD process.
• Proven experience deploying and configuring Cloud Services using Terraform.
• Exposure to or understanding of Project Management Principles
• Working in a DevOps environment (including proven CI/CD experience with technologies such as GitLab or Github, Nexus and others).
• Knowledge of JSON templates, PowerShell, CLI’s, Shell, Python.
• Understanding of Cloud technologies and best practices, Networking in Public and Hybrid Cloud environments,
• Network protocols, network architecture and security.
• Understanding of virtualization technologies, such as VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Security Architecture concepts including encryption, authentication, database security, Identity
• Providers, Enterprise single sign-on (SSO), Federated SSO, multi-factor authentication, API security.