Cloud Engineer
On-site · Rosebank, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing PayInc’s cloud and hosted infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. Focused on scalability, security, regulatory compliance (including PCI), operational excellence, and cost efficiency through automation, infrastructure as code, and standardized blueprints. Collaborates with governance, IT, and external stakeholders to deliver highly available, fault-tolerant hosting platforms, drive automation with Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation, promote cloud-native design patterns, support FinOps initiatives, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security policies.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, IT engineering or related discipline
- AWS Certifications (Strongly Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Multi-Cloud architecture certifications or equivalent experience
- Infrastructure as Code & DevOps Certifications (Advantageous): Terraform Certification, Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD), Docker certifications
- Git or DevOps platform certifications
- Master’s degree advantageous
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in senior cloud engineering roles
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a technical leadership role
- Minimum 1 year working experience in multi-cloud environments
- Experience with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, RDS, VPC/Networking, OpenStack, Terraform, CI/CD, Git, IaC lifecycle management
- Exposure to Microsoft Azure and other cloud providers advantageous
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, compliance standards, and cost optimization
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