Senior Cloud Engineer - Infra, SRE & Observability

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 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.