Remote Lead Cloud Architect - Strategy, Security & Scale

Placements24; Klerksdorp; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Health and retirement benefits

Fully remote role

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Lead Cloud Solutions Architect for a fast-paced technology consulting environment. This fully remote role supports clients from anywhere, with base awareness of Klerksdorp, North West region.

Lead cloud strategy, design scalable and secure solutions, and guide cross-functional teams across major cloud platforms. You will drive architecture standards, governance, and best practices while translating complex business needs into robust technical designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in IT architecture, with at least 5 years focused on cloud solutions.
• Proven experience designing on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Deep understanding of cloud concepts, services, security, networking, storage, compute, databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on major platforms.
• Lead cloud adoption strategies and roadmaps for clients.
• Define standards, governance and best practices for cloud environments.
• Gather requirements and translate into robust cloud architectures.
• Provide technical leadership to development and operations teams.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized.
• Evaluate cloud services and technologies; develop PoCs.
• Stay current with cloud trends and present designs to clients.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Presentation

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Lead Cloud Solutions Architect for a fast-paced technology consulting environment. This fully remote role supports clients from anywhere, with base awareness of Klerksdorp, North West region.

Lead cloud strategy, design scalable and secure solutions, and guide cross-functional teams across major cloud platforms. You will drive architecture standards, governance, and best practices while translating complex business needs into robust technical designs.