Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Proactive Azure & AWS

DVT; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

DVT in South Africa is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering team in Gauteng. The role focuses on improving Azure and AWS cloud estate management, moving from reactive to proactive, structured operations.

Working with Platform Engineers and Engineering Manager, you will provide technical stewardship, establish maintenance routines, identify risks, and promote engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience.
• Experience moving teams from reactive to proactive cloud management.
• Experience establishing or improving maintenance, patching, upgrade and lifecycle-management practices.
• Experience helping establish engineering standards and technical priorities.
• Strong experience with Azure and AWS, with working knowledge of both cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes/container platforms and CI/CD.
• Good understanding of cloud security, reliability, resilience and observability.
• Ability to identify improvement opportunities proactively and work collaboratively to implement them.

Responsibilities

• Help establish a structured and proactive approach to managing Azure and AWS estate.
• Establish and improve routine maintenance, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Help ensure cloud and platform changes are appropriately planned and tested.
• Help structure and technically prioritise platform work based on risk, lifecycle and operational need.
• Establish and promote pragmatic cloud engineering standards and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate cloud management.
• Proactively identify technical risks and improvement opportunities.
• Support improvements across security, reliability, resilience and observability.
• Provide technical guidance and support to the Platform Engineering team.
• Remain hands-on, contributing to engineering, remediation, automation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Azure & AWS expertise

IaC (Terraform)

Kubernetes / container platforms

CI/CD

Cloud security / reliability / observ.

Proactive improvement mindset

Hands-on technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

DVT in South Africa is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering team in Gauteng. The role focuses on improving Azure and AWS cloud estate management, moving from reactive to proactive, structured operations.

Working with Platform Engineers and Engineering Manager, you will provide technical stewardship, establish maintenance routines, identify risks, and promote engineering standards.