Cloud Engineer Job Cape Town area,South Africa,Engineering

Description

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for managing and overseeing Old Mutual's cloud infrastructure, including designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based technologies, optimizing cloud usage and performance, and ensuring the security and availability of the cloud environment.
This job will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical expertise, coaching and support for cloud-related initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Implementation of cloud architecture standards and principles

Define and implement cloud engineering patterns & standards

Automation - Development of automation systems to enable scale and speed. Removal of any manual processes within the cloud environment

Evaluation of cloud services

Identify

PaaS and SaaS services for the Ecosystem

Define standards together with cloud architecture and security for usage of services and development of self-service capability for the identified service

Monitoring

Define monitoring and reporting requirements.

Implementation of monitoring for ecosystem.

Inclusion of monitoring practices for services and infrastructure automation

Continuous Improvement – Cost Optimisation, Performance Improvement, Capacity management

Liaise with vendors to drive the selection and procurement of cloud enabling technologies and services

Manage Networking of cloud environments

Ensure Recovery

Manage Infrastructure Availability and Resilience

Define and implement cloud policies

Manage governance and compliance for cloud

Incident Management for cloud environments

Management of OM Landing zones
-Multicloud

Management of centralized platforms on cloude.gEKS, ECS

Assessment of maturity ofsquad'scloud practice adoption and creation of plans and processes to improve maturity

Minimum Requirements:

A numerate

Bachelor'sDegree(e.g.Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering) with minimumor equivalent technical qualification .

5 years of professional experience.

Relevant cloud certification .

Technical Experience requirements:

Cloud platforms such as AWS,Azureor Google

Dev Ops

Cloud Engineering and operations practices

Problem solving and trouble shootingskills

Infrastructure as code(Eg, Terraform, Cloud Formation)

Cloud security

Cloud Networking

Agile/SAFe

Coding and scripting (Eg.Python, Bash,Powershell)

Skills

Adaptive Thinking, Change Management, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure Management, Computer Network Security, Cost Account Management, Cost Budgeting, Data Analysis, Data Collection Methods, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), IT Network Security, Performance Improvements, Project Integration Management, Project Life Cycle Management, System Architecture Analysis, System Requirements Analysis, Virtualization, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Competencies

Education

NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

Closing Date

14 March 2026 , 23:59


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