Senior Cloud Engineer

Jellyfish; Durban; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in cloud engineering, where you'll shape the future of cloud-native applications. This role focuses on building and maintaining scalable applications while collaborating on innovative solutions that integrate generative AI and modern infrastructure practices.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Growth and training opportunities

Discretionary annual bonus scheme

Paid self-development days

14 weeks paid leave for primary caregivers

Qualifications

• Understand microservice and serverless architectures.
• Proficient in Dockerizing applications.
• Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).

Responsibilities

• Review and oversee platform enhancements.
• Complete implementations independently and in teams.
• Govern technologies to meet security standards.

Skills

Microservice architecture

Serverless architecture

Performance enhancement

Networking fundamentals

Docker

Kubernetes management

IaC technologies (e.g., Terraform)

Security best practices

Job description

Reporting to our Vice President of Engineering you will join our growing Cloud Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of web technologies building maintaining and scaling applications for our global clients.

You will work with modern infrastructure practices including serverless computing containerisation and orchestration frameworks across platforms developed in PHP NodeJS and Python. Many of these platforms are applying Generative AI capabilities and youll architect and optimise cloud infrastructure to support the latest solutions.

This is a role for a passionate technologist who is excited about shaping the future of cloudnative applications enhanced by AI.

Your primary responsibilities will include :

• Review and oversee platform enhancements.
• Complete implementations working well both independently and as part of a team.
• Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met.
• Work in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything.
• Scope and estimate technical web builds.
• Practice Site Reliability Engineering concepts and design.
• Manage large cloud projects for our clients across multiple countries.
• Work with our developers to help share knowledge and improve the quality of practices.
• Advise on new technologies to make sure Jellyfishs products are always evolving.

Qualifications :

• An understanding of microservice and serveless architectures.
• Understand performance enhancement technologies (CDN Caching).
• Understand networking fundamentals.
• Proficient in Dockerising applications.
• Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).
• Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC technologies.
• Helm / ArgoCD knowledge.
• AWS RDS (MySQL / Postgres) and MongoDB
• A focus on security and following best practices.
• You embrace challenges as opportunities and when faced with a problem you collaborate with the appropriate people to evaluate different options find practical solutions.

Note : We emphasise skills expertise and behavioural attributes over years of experience and traditional degrees. If you want to join our collaborative team we invite you to apply today with your resume in English.

Additional Information :

Join Jellyfish and experience a workplace where we prioritise your growth celebrate your contributions and empower you to tailor your work environment to suit your needs.

Reward : Youll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.

Custom Work Environment : Choose whether to work from home or one of our 3 offices and shape your day between 8am. and 6 : 30pm with flexible working hours.

Growth Your Way : Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for selfdevelopment and access to LinkedIn Learning with unlimited online courses

Family Support : Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers. We also provide 1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.

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Jellyfish will give preference to Employment Equity candidates in accordance with the companys Employment Equity Plan and its Affirmative Action measures.

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Key Skills

APIs,C / C++,Computer Graphics,Go,React,Redux,Node.js,AWS,Library Services,Assembly,GraphQL,High Voltage

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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