Fully Remote Lead Cloud Architect — Strategy & Scale
Placements24
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Placements24 is seeking a visionary Lead Cloud Solutions Architect to drive our cloud strategy, architecture, and governance. This fully remote role lets you design scalable, secure cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP while guiding a team of engineers from anywhere in South Africa.
You will lead migrations, optimize costs, implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and champion DevOps and CI/CD practices.
Qualifications
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field.
- 7+ years of experience designing and managing complex cloud environments.
- Deep expertise in cloud architecture patterns, services and cost optimization.
- Proven experience with IaC tools Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable, available, secure cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Develop cloud governance, compliance, and security best practices.
- Lead migration of existing on-prem to cloud.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers.
- Evaluate and integrate new cloud technologies to enhance solutions.
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Job description
Placements24 is seeking a visionary Lead Cloud Solutions Architect to drive our cloud strategy, architecture, and governance. This fully remote role lets you design scalable, secure cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP while guiding a team of engineers from anywhere in South Africa.
You will lead migrations, optimize costs, implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and champion DevOps and CI/CD practices.
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