Remote Senior Cloud Architect & Strategy Leader

Placements24; Benoni; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive-level pay

Premium health insurance

Remote work flexibility

Professional development budget

Cloud strategy shaping role

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of cloud strategies in a fully remote capacity. You will guide adoption and optimization of cloud technologies, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions across the organization.

The role requires deep cloud platform expertise, a track record of architecting complex environments, and strong communication skills for distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in IT infra and cloud computing with 4+ years in cloud architecture.
• Hands-on with major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Strong networking, security, and data architecture knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, highly available cloud solutions on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop cloud migration roadmaps for diverse workloads.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Evaluate cloud services to meet business needs.
• Define governance, security, and cost optimization standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into architectures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure/GCP

Leadership

Communication

Networking & Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of cloud strategies in a fully remote capacity. You will guide adoption and optimization of cloud technologies, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions across the organization.

The role requires deep cloud platform expertise, a track record of architecting complex environments, and strong communication skills for distributed teams.