Cloud Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Sandton, Gauteng seeks a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement and secure highly available enterprise cloud platforms. The role requires hands-on AWS experience, IaC, CI/CD automation, and strong DevOps practices.

You will work with microservices, security, and data pipelines, leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes and automation tools in a fast paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure, Software Development, DevOps.
• 3+ years designing and implementing highly available, enterprise-scale cloud infra.
• 2+ years in AWS.
• Experience deploying and supporting cloud/microservices architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tooling.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT Engineering or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

ELK

New Relic

JSON templates

PowerShell

Python

Job description

• 5+ years experience in Infrastructure, Software Development, DevOps
• 3+ years design and implementation of highly available, enterprise-scale Cloud infrastructure.
• 2+ years in AWS
• Of introducing Cloud technology (start-up) in an environment processes, principles etc.
• Design and hands on troubleshooting background on AWS Platform (Azure or GCP will be advantageous).
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience developing and supporting infrastructure and Cloud capabilities for micro services-based architectures.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools.
• Experience with authentication and Authorization technologies and protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Experience in a financial services or banking organisation
• Infrastructure security
• Experience in engineering data pipelines using Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, etc.
• Experience with ELK, New Relic or similar on Public Cloud Platforms.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment (Atlassian Stack).
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - IT Engineering or Engineering

Knowledge of:

• Design and deployment of highly available, enterprise-scale Cloud infrastructure.
• Advance knowledge of infrastructure concepts, technologies and patterns. (SDLC, IaC)
• Practical, working knowledge of:
• Developing and delivering systems on AWS Platforms (Azure or GCP will be advantageous).
• Supporting and enhancing build and release processes through automation using a combination of processes and existing tools.
• Understanding of Cloud Security technologies and best practices.
• Understanding of Networking in Cloud environments.
• Understanding of modern software engineering patterns, including those used in highly scalable, distributed, and resilient systems.
• Ability to deliver long-term, repeatable IaC solutions that incorporate directly into an overall CI/CD process.
• Knowledge of JSON templates, PowerShell, CLIs, Shell, Python.

Skills:

• Analytical Skills
• Communications Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)