Senior Cloud Architect: AWS & Azure (Hybrid, Paarl)

Placements24; Paarl; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Training & certifications

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect for Paarl, Western Cape. The role focuses on designing scalable cloud architectures on AWS and Azure and guiding migrations for enterprise clients.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years in IT infrastructure and architecture, hands-on AWS/Azure experience, IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and strong communication to translate business needs into technical designs. Hybrid on-site and remote work is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in IT infrastructure and architecture, with at least 5 years focused on cloud solutions.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying on AWS and Azure.
• Strong knowledge of core cloud services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS; VM, Azure SQL, VNet, Storage).
• IaC tooling experience (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with containers and serverless.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, secure cloud solutions on AWS and Azure.
• Translate business needs into technical cloud strategies.
• Develop detailed architectural designs including network, compute, storage, and security.
• Lead cloud migration projects from on-prem to cloud.
• Provide guidance to development and operations teams.
• Optimize cloud environments for cost and performance.
• Stay current with cloud technologies and present designs to stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical

Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelors in CS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect for Paarl, Western Cape. The role focuses on designing scalable cloud architectures on AWS and Azure and guiding migrations for enterprise clients.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years in IT infrastructure and architecture, hands-on AWS/Azure experience, IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, and strong communication to translate business needs into technical designs. Hybrid on-site and remote work is available.