Remote Telecom Cloud Engineer | AWS/Azure/GCP

Placements24; Polokwane; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully remote

Home office stipend

Cloud training

Innovative culture

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Telecom Cloud Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting operations in Polokwane and beyond, contributing to resilient cloud platforms.

You will design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure for telecom workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP; implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible; and use Docker and Kubernetes.

This role emphasizes security, scalability, and collaboration with development and operations teams to optimize performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering.
• At least 6 years in cloud engineering with telecom infrastructure focus.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP services.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting (Python, Bash) and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid networking and cloud security fundamentals.
• Ability to work fully remote in a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for telecom workloads.
• Implement and maintain containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Develop automation using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Ensure security, scalability and reliability of cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to optimise performance.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure and telecom apps in the cloud.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Networking concepts

Security principles

Python

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Telecom Cloud Engineer to join a fully remote team supporting operations in Polokwane and beyond, contributing to resilient cloud platforms.

You will design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure for telecom workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP; implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible; and use Docker and Kubernetes.

This role emphasizes security, scalability, and collaboration with development and operations teams to optimize performance and reliability.