Senior Cloud Engineer

About us:

Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

What this job is:

CF Business Technology is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a small, steady team. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. Remote within South Africa. The team meets in Pretoria once a quarter, travel covered. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll work on:

• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.

Compensation and benefits:

Pay: R74,000 - R87,000 a month

• Flexible schedule.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at CF Business Technology.