Lead Cloud/Platform Engineer
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Lead Cloud/Platform Engineer improving DVT’s Azure and AWS cloud estate. Establishing proactive maintenance, security, automation and engineering standards.
Responsibilities:
- Help establish a structured and proactive approach to managing the 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
- 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
- Work alongside Platform Engineers and the Engineering Manager to provide technical stewardship of the cloud estate
- Operate in a hands-on technical leadership role without direct people-management responsibility
Requirements:
- Strong hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience
- Demonstrable experience improving management of an existing cloud estate and moving teams from reactive towards 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
- 5+ years of commercial experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud solutions using AWS and/or Azure
- Experience using automation and configuration management tools such as Python, Puppet or Chef in a production environment
- Experience implementing cloud security standards such as NIST, ISO, or HIPAA in a production environment
- Matric/Equivalent
- Legal right to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship
Benefits:
- Continuous staff training
- Sponsored technical events across the AWS & Azure ecosystem
- Culture of learning, internal speaking and training
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