Cloud Engineer

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using best practices and well-architected principles
• Build scalable and highly available environments using EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront
• Implement networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, and Direct Connect
• Support hybrid and multi-account AWS environments
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK
• Develop Python, Bash, and PowerShell automation scripts for provisioning, configuration, operational tasks, housekeeping, account baselining, and governance controls
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and controlled environment promotion
• Create reusable modules, templates, and libraries to standardise cloud environments
• Follow Git-based version control workflows
• Write clean, reusable, and well-documented infrastructure code
• Implement peer reviews and testing for infrastructure code
• Embed security, compliance, and least-privilege principles in code
• Implement AWS security practices including IAM roles and policies, encryption, and key management
• Enforce governance controls using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, and account baselining
• Support compliance requirements including audit readiness, logging, monitoring, and access controls
• Work with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and risks
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost using CloudWatch, AWS Config, and third-party monitoring tools
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies
• Participate in on-call or operational support rotations where required
• Monitor and optimize AWS usage and costs using cost allocation tags, budgets, and cost-explorer tools
• Recommend right-sizing, reserved instances, savings plans, and architectural improvements to reduce spend
• Provide cost transparency and reporting to stakeholders
• Work closely with application teams, DevOps, security, and architecture teams
• Provide cloud engineering support to developers and solution architects
• Contribute to cloud standards, patterns, and reference architectures
• Produce documentation and knowledge-sharing material

Cloud Engineer jobs in South Africa

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