Senior Hybrid Cloud & DevOps Engineer — Remote

e-Merge IT Recruitment; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Part time

Job summary

e-Merge IT Recruitment seeks a Senior Hybrid Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate scalable hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role focuses on stabilising environments, modernising platforms, and delivering resilient, secure systems for high-impact client engagements.

You will lead on-prem to cloud migrations, optimize cloud performance and costs, and collaborate with DevOps and security teams to support CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Hybrid cloud expertise in client-facing environments.
• Hands-on IaC and automation experience.
• Ability to influence technical direction and work independently.
• Comfort with unfamiliar environments and rapid stabilization.

Responsibilities

• Designing and operating hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Leading on-prem - cloud or hybrid migrations with minimal downtime.
• Driving cloud optimisation across performance, scalability, and cost.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK.
• Ensuring security, resilience, DR, and compliance best practices.
• Modernising and maintaining on-prem environments.
• Collaborating with DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams to support CI/CD pipelines.
• Providing hands‑on technical leadership within engineering teams.
• Supporting capacity planning and on‑call rotations where required.
• Producing clear architecture and operational documentation.

Skills

Hybrid cloud

Migration expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Cloud monitoring

Security & DR

CI/CD

Leadership

On-call support

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

e-Merge IT Recruitment seeks a Senior Hybrid Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate scalable hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role focuses on stabilising environments, modernising platforms, and delivering resilient, secure systems for high-impact client engagements.

You will lead on-prem to cloud migrations, optimize cloud performance and costs, and collaborate with DevOps and security teams to support CI/CD pipelines.