Cloud Engineer – Multi-Cloud & Automation

Herotel; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Risk Benefits

Medical Benefits

Health and Lifestyle Programmes

Internal academy

Job summary

Herotel seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud environments across AWS, Azure and GCP from Plattekloof. You will monitor cost, performance and security while implementing hybrid connectivity and infrastructure as code.

Strong hands-on AWS/Azure, security, scripting and container experience are required. Join a dynamic, cloud-first team and contribute to migration projects, DR planning and architecture governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS or similar qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years in cloud engineering with strong hands-on AWS and Azure administration experience.
• Working knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage and security.
• Experience with hybrid cloud integration (Azure Arc, VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates) and with cloud DevOps pipelines.
• Scripting experience in PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305) advantageous; AWS certifications advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Monitor performance, cost and security of cloud services, focusing on AWS.
• Implement and manage hybrid cloud connectivity and DR/backups.
• Manage identity, access and security policies; enforce governance best practices.
• Automate provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation and other IaC tools.
• Document cloud architecture, standards and procedures; support migration projects.

Skills

AWS administration

Azure administration

Terraform

CloudFormation

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Windows server

Linux server

CI/CD pipelines

Security

Networking

Governance

Infra as Code

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Herotel seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud environments across AWS, Azure and GCP from Plattekloof. You will monitor cost, performance and security while implementing hybrid connectivity and infrastructure as code.

Strong hands-on AWS/Azure, security, scripting and container experience are required. Join a dynamic, cloud-first team and contribute to migration projects, DR planning and architecture governance.