Location: Hybrid - Cape Town / Johannesburg
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Cloud Engineering
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll lead a team of cloud engineers while working in a consultative, project-based manner with our clients. You'll be the trusted technical advisor on engagements, owning the architecture and technical direction, guiding delivery, and ensuring your team produces high-quality, secure, cost-effective, well-engineered outcomes on AWS.
The ideal candidate is a strong engineer first: someone who writes production-quality code and IaC, and who brings deep AWS expertise to every engagement. Beyond building, you'll set technical direction, make architectural trade-offs, establish standards, and mentor others, acting as a credible technical voice with clients from discovery through to handover.
What You'll Do
You'll operate as a technical leader: shaping solutions, raising the bar on quality, and unblocking the team.
Lead engagements and people
- Lead a team of cloud engineers across client engagements, providing technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on support.
- Own client relationships through the full project lifecycle, from discovery and scoping through to delivery and handover, as the primary technical point of contact.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements, assess current infrastructure, and define cloud migration and optimisation strategies.
- Present to executive stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences, and lead technical workshops.
Design and build cloud architectures
- Design and own scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures on AWS, making sound trade-offs on reliability, performance, and cost (FinOps).
- Provide expert guidance on AWS architecture, design patterns, and Well-Architected best practices, ensuring alignment with industry standards and client objectives.
- Architect networking and hybrid connectivity: VPC design, subnets, Route 53, VPN Gateway, and Direct Connect.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation), writing code that serves as the standard for your team.