Senior Cloud Engineer Cape Town

Impact; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform helping brands grow by discovering, managing, and scaling partnerships across the customer journey. The Senior Cloud Engineer will join a focused squad to ensure production environments are stable, observable, secure, and cost-effective.

You will manage IaC evolution, GKE/EKS clusters, secure base images, drift remediation, and implement observability standards, with on-call rotations and SLA targets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering or similar.
• Strong Terraform and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with GCP and AWS and security patching.

Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and version high-quality IaC modules (Terraform) for GCP and AWS services, ensuring they are consumable by platform engineering.
• Deploy and maintain foundational networking topology, VPCs, DNS, and IAM primitives.
• Manage the lifecycle of GKE/EKS clusters and compute instances, including the maintenance of secure base images and container standards.
• Drive drift detection and remediation, ensuring automated scans run daily with remediation completed within 24 hours.
• Maintain observability backends (metrics pipelines, log storage, and alerting) to ensure infrastructure-layer monitoring standards are met.
• Ensure patch compliance for >95% of systems and conduct quarterly access reviews.

Skills

IaC

Observability

SRE

SecOps

FinOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Tools

GKE

EKS

Terraform

DNS

IAM

VPC

Job description

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) —unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Position Overview

As impact.com scales, we require a Senior Cloud Engineer to serve as a technical specialistforour infrastructure substrate. You will be part of a specialised squad (IaC & Provisioning, Observability, SRE, SecOps, or FinOps) focused on ensuring that production environments arestable, observable, secure, and cost-effective.In this role, you treat the infrastructure layer as a capability provider to the rest of theengineering organisation. You are responsible for executing the technical roadmap, coveringeverything from IaC evolution and GCP/AWS Kubernetes and compute management tovulnerability remediation and observability standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and version high-quality IaC modules (Terraform) for GCP and AWSservices, ensuring they are consumable by platform engineering.
• Deploy and maintain foundational networking topology, VPCs, DNS, and IAM primitives.
• Manage the lifecycle of GKE/EKS clusters and compute instances, including the maintenance of secure base images and container standards.
• Drive drift detection and remediation, ensuring automated scans run daily withremediation completed within 24 hours.

Reliability & Observability

• Maintain observability backends (metrics pipelines, log storage, and alerting) to ensureinfrastructure-layer monitoring standards are met.
• Ensure log pipeline uptime of 99.9% and maintain an alert accuracy rate of < 5% falsepositives for P1/P2 alerts.
• Participate in stress testing and capacity planning to ensure infrastructure can scalesafely.
• Reduce toil through automation, contributing to at least one major toil reduction initiativeper quarter.
• Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation, acknowledging P1 incidents within 5minutes and aiming for an MTTR of < 30 minutes.
• Execute vulnerability remediation and security patching on advisories from the SOC:Critical (48 hours) and High (7 days).
• Ensure patch compliance for > 95% of systems and conduct quarterly access reviews.
• Draft and publish blameless post-mortems within 5 working days of resolvinginfrastructure incidents.