Remote Hands-On Solutions Architect: Cloud & Zero-Trust

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is seeking a Solutions Architect (Expert) in Pretoria to lead hands-on architecture across the full stack, from design to deployment. You’ll architect, build, break, fix, deploy, and continuously improve secure, scalable services within a global tech environment focused on a major Zero Trust transformation.

Ideal candidates will have deep Java/Spring Boot and Node.js experience, plus Cloud-native AWS, microservices and API design expertise.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with Java (Spring Boot) for backend development and scalable services.
• Strong proficiency with Node.js for backend development and scalable services.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and relational SQL databases; solid understanding of database concepts, query languages, relationships and how to create and maintain scalable schemas.
• Deep experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs and integrations using JSON/ XML and API design best practices.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices and event‑driven architectures; integrate with message and event systems to enable real‑time and asynchronous workflows.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and application security frameworks.
• Cloud‑native development and publishing experience on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, IAM).
• Experience designing, building and operating CI/CD pipelines with Git and tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline; understanding of CI/CD concepts is required.
• Solid understanding of Git and source control workflows.
• Curiosity and drive: actively seeks out unknowns, experiments to learn, and enjoys solving complex technical problems.
• Systems thinking: understands how components interact, anticipates downstream impacts, and designs solutions with an end‑to‑end perspective.
• Strong problem‑solving: breaks down ambiguous problems, proposes pragmatic solutions, and measures outcomes.
• Adaptability and collaboration: works well with changing priorities, values feedback, and partners effectively across cross‑functional teams.
• Agile working: comfortable in iterative delivery, sprint cadences, and delivering incremental value with engineering discipline.
• Clear communication: explains technical choices to technical and non‑technical stakeholders and documents decisions clearly.
• Continuous learning: keeps skills current and stays up to date with best practices.
• Strong ownership and leadership skills: drive technical topics, communicate effectively with stakeholders and deliver end‑to‑end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy and maintain secure, production-ready services across the stack.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive technical decisions and lead end-to-end implementation in a Zero Trust initiative.

Skills

Java (Spring Boot)

Node.js

MongoDB/SQL

REST & GraphQL APIs

Microservices & event-driven

Secure coding practices

AWS Cloud-native

CI/CD pipelines

Git & workflows

Systems thinking

Education

Degree in IT or related

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

ServiceNow dev

Graph databases (Neo4j)

Kafka / RabbitMQ

AWS monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus)

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is seeking a Solutions Architect (Expert) in Pretoria to lead hands-on architecture across the full stack, from design to deployment. You’ll architect, build, break, fix, deploy, and continuously improve secure, scalable services within a global tech environment focused on a major Zero Trust transformation.

Ideal candidates will have deep Java/Spring Boot and Node.js experience, plus Cloud-native AWS, microservices and API design expertise.