Senior Cloud Engineer

Ithemba Recruitment- Sourcing Top Talent; Durban; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for an experienced individual to support Cloud technologies and Linux systems. This role involves working with customers to understand their requirements, designing distributed systems, and maintaining the OpenShift environment. The ideal candidate has over three years of hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration. A degree in Computer Science or similar is required for this position, which emphasizes clear communication and collaboration with teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems.
• Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands‑on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems including container technologies, container orchestration, integration with other environments.

Responsibilities

• Work tightly with customers, to understand and deliver their requirements.
• Design and build distributed systems.
• Support Production and Development Teams to solve problems related to container platforms.
• Maintain/Monitor (e.g. Prometheus) the health of the systems through automated and manual processes.
• Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.
• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.
• Ensure systems adhere to NIST and departmental standards.
• Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Linux systems

Container technologies

Container orchestration

Ansible

RedHat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Prometheus

Git

CI/CD tools

OpenShift

Job description

• Work tightly with our customers, to understand, capture, and deliver their requirements.
• Design and build distributed systems.
• Be able to work with the Operator Framework.
• Have an interest in diving into OpenShift and ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation).
• Work with your fellow engineers and the community to serve our customers.
• Support the requests of the Production and Development Teams to solve any problems related to the container platforms.
• Develop and oversee the backup, replication and disaster recovery strategies.
• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.
• Ensure systems adhere to NIST and departmental standards.
• Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.
• Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.
• Install, configure and maintain OpenShift environment.
• Maintain/Monitor (i.e. Prometheus) the health of the systems through both automated and manual processes.
• Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).
• Understand OS and application-level issues and advise on the next steps.
• Ability to communicate clearly and set the right expectations with all stakeholders.
• Applicable understanding of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, business or related or relevant experience.
• Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands‑on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems including:
• Container technologies
• Container orchestration
• Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).