Cloud Engineer

Kaelo; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaelo seeks a senior cloud/infrastructure professional to manage multi-cloud environments (Azure and Google Cloud) and implement cost-optimisation strategies. You will lead governance, engage with the IT Executive, and ensure compliance with information security frameworks in a regulated South African setting.

You will design, test, and maintain infrastructure as code, disaster recovery plans, and security controls while collaborating across data centres and cloud providers to optimise workloads

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field.
• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Google Associate Cloud Engineer required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Google Professional Cloud Architect advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Monitor spend across cloud providers by workload and department.
• Track and report spend and alert on budget variances.
• Implement optimisation: rightsizing, reserved instances, and discounts.
• Compare costs across public cloud, independent providers, and co-location; recommend placements.
• Align work to IT strategy set by the IT Executive; communicate progress and risks.

Skills

Azure

Google Cloud

FinOps

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS/Engineering)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure CLI

PowerShell

gcloud

Job description

About Kaelo
Kaelo provides essential healthcare solutions ensuring the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of all South Africans towards lasting social change. Kaelo meets the Healthcare needs of Corporate and Retail clients across South Africa – products offerings include Medical Insurance, Medical Aid, Gap Insurance, Kaelo Money and employee assistance programmes.

Job Description

REQ-07

• required for ISO 27001 and internal audit.
• Track and report spend across all cloud providers and hosting by workload and department.
• Monitor consumption against budget and alert on variance before it becomes material.
• Implement optimisation, including rightsizing, reserved instances and committed-use discounts, storage tiering and decommissioning of unused resources.
• Compare the cost of running workloads in public cloud, with independent providers and in co-location, and recommend the most cost-effective placement.
• Align work to, and execute, the direction and strategy set by the IT Executive.
• Communicate progress and elevate issues and risks to the IT Executive, through the Head of IT where appropriate, promptly and transparently.

Qualifications

REQ-07

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or national diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.
• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Google Associate Cloud Engineer required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Google Professional Cloud Architect advantageous.

Experience

• Minimum 5–7 years’ infrastructure experience, including at least 3 years engineering and operating public cloud environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure and working experience of Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience managing virtualised servers in data centres or co-location facilities alongside cloud environments.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred for multi‑cloud, or Bicep).
• Experience designing and testing backup and disaster recovery for business‑critical systems.
• Scripting ability (PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI or gcloud).

Preferred

• Experience operating a multi‑cloud environment, including migrating workloads between providers.
• Experience with independent or regional cloud service providers and co‑location facilities in South Africa.
• Experience with cloud cost management or FinOps practice.
• Experience in a regulated environment, or exposure to ISO 27001, CIS or NIST controls.
• Independent Cloud Service Providers & Co‑located Hosting
• Server Virtualisation (VMware, Hyper‑V)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep)
• Backup, Disaster Recovery & Cross‑Provider Recovery
• Monitoring & Logging across Providers
• Cloud Security Posture (Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Security Command Center)

Core Competencies

• Reliability Focus — designs for failure and proves recoverability rather than assuming it.
• Commercial Judgement — places workloads where cost, performance and risk are best balanced.
• Security Awareness — builds secure by default rather than remediating later.
• Problem Solving — diagnoses infrastructure issues methodically across providers and under pressure.
• Ownership & Accountability — owns the availability of the platforms the organisation depends upon.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Availability of services hosted across all cloud providers and co‑located data centres against agreed service levels.
• Backup success rate and successful restore test results.
• Disaster recovery test outcomes against defined recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Spend across all providers against budget, and savings delivered through workload optimisation.
• Secure configuration and policy compliance across providers, and remediation of findings.
• Delivery of workload migrations against plan.
• Proportion of infrastructure provisioned through code rather than manual configuration.

Regulatory, Risk & Information Security Responsibilities

• Comply with POPIA in the handling of personal and special personal information, including member health information, and with the Cybercrimes Act, reporting any suspected unlawful access or compromise without delay.
• Adhere to Kaelo information security policies and the frameworks the organisation aligns to, including FSCA Joint Standard 2 of 2024, ISO/IEC 27001, the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Maintain the evidence required to support the ISMS and internal, external and certification audits within the area of responsibility.
• Escalate security incidents, control weaknesses and operational risks promptly, and complete all mandatory compliance and awareness training.

Additional Information

Personal Attributes

• Accountability
• Action orientated
• Communication
• Business writing skills
• Manage complexity
• Decision thinking
• Resilient and adaptive
• Resourceful
• Demonstrates self‑awareness
• Significance and values orientated