Strategic Cloud Architect for Multi-Cloud & Security

Placements24; Mossel Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical coverage

Retirement fund

Professional development opportunities

Coastal Mossel Bay location

Job summary

Placements24 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, seeks a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect to lead cloud strategy, design scalable architectures, and guide migrations across AWS, Azure and GCP. This executive role requires deep technical and leadership capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, partner with stakeholders, and drive secure, cost-efficient, multi-cloud deployments while shaping governance and best practices. Based in Mossel Bay with a competitive package.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent extensive experience.
• 10+ years in designing and implementing enterprise IT solutions, with 5+ years cloud architecture.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP including core services.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud strategies and implementations.
• Microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless.
• IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates.
• Security best practices in cloud environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and engagement with executive stakeholders.
• Relevant cloud architect certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end cloud solutions on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop and maintain cloud strategy, roadmaps and best practices.
• Lead technical design and migrations of cloud-native apps.
• Ensure secure, highly available, scalable, cost-optimized architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud teams.
• Evaluate new cloud technologies and services.
• Develop and enforce cloud governance policies.
• Create architectural documentation and diagrams.
• Troubleshoot high-level architectural issues.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Executive communication

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Decision making

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

Job description

Placements24 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, seeks a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect to lead cloud strategy, design scalable architectures, and guide migrations across AWS, Azure and GCP. This executive role requires deep technical and leadership capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, partner with stakeholders, and drive secure, cost-efficient, multi-cloud deployments while shaping governance and best practices. Based in Mossel Bay with a competitive package.