Cloud Engineer

Acuity Consultants; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Consultants seeks an Azure Cloud Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind a growing SaaS platform. You will design, deploy, and secure Azure components, using IaC (Bicep or Terraform) and integrate provisioning into Azure DevOps CI/CD workflows.

Based in Cape Town, the role focuses on scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, including networking, security and production-ops across the lifecycle of the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Networking or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4–6 years' experience building and operating Azure cloud environments in production.
• Strong understanding of SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, high availability and scalability patterns.
• Solid understanding of Azure cloud networking, including hub-and-spoke architecture, VPN, SD-WAN and Azure Firewall.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Bicep or Terraform.
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and supporting production systems.
• Experience with cloud security, configuration management and governance.
• Experience with production incident management, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with cloud shell scripting and version control.
• Experience working in an Agile engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and build the Azure infrastructure that supports the SaaS platform, ensuring security, reliability and cost-efficiency.
• Design and deliver Azure infrastructure components using IaC (Bicep/Terraform).
• Integrate infrastructure provisioning into Azure DevOps CI/CD workflows for automated deployments.
• Monitor environments, identify configuration risks and assist with incident response and RCA.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Agile engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Networking

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

An excellent opportunity for an Azure Cloud Engineer to take ownership of building, maintaining and improving the cloud infrastructure behind a growing SaaS platform. You'll work across Azure infrastructure, cloud networking, security and automation, ensuring the platform remains reliable, scalable and cost-effective as the business evolves.

Based in Cape Town this opportunity is paying between R1.2M – R1.4M

THE COMPANY

A global technology scale-up specialising in IoT and SaaS solutions that connect physical devices and infrastructure to the cloud. The company’s technology is used across water, utilities, rail, mining and industrial environments to collect, process and act on real-world data.

The platform operates at significant scale, processing billions of measurements every year across a global customer base. This creates a genuinely interesting engineering environment where scalability, reliability, data integrity and performance are critical to how the platform operates.

THE ROLE

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, you'll play a key role in building, maintaining and improving the Azure infrastructure that supports the company's SaaS platform. Your focus will be on ensuring the underlying cloud environment is secure, reliable, scalable and cost-effective.

You'll be responsible for designing and delivering Azure infrastructure components, implementing Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or Terraform, and improving the way infrastructure is provisioned and managed. You'll work across cloud networking, security configurations, infrastructure automation and production environment management.

Working alongside software development teams, you'll help integrate infrastructure provisioning into Azure DevOps CI/CD workflows, supporting automated deployments and ensuring development teams have the infrastructure they need to deliver applications effectively.

You'll also be involved in monitoring cloud environments, identifying configuration risks, managing infrastructure costs and supporting incident response and root-cause analysis.

THE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Networking or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).


• 4–6 years' experience building and operating Azure cloud environments in production.


• Strong understanding of SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, high availability and scalability patterns.


• Solid understanding of Azure cloud networking, including hub-and-spoke architecture, VPN, SD-WAN and Azure Firewall.


• Strong hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Bicep or Terraform.


• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and infrastructure provisioning.


• Experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and supporting production systems.


• Experience with cloud security, configuration management and governance.


• Experience with production incident management, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.


• Experience with cloud shell scripting and version control.


• Experience working in an Agile engineering environment.


• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.