Senior Cloud Engineer

Titan Wealth SA (PTY) LTD|Posted 19 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Cloud engineer

Experience in role:5+ years

Language proficiency:English

Must-have skills:

Azure

Azure DevOps Server

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid

Location of job:City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder or permanent resident

Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa

Employment type:Permanent

Role description

This role will require active collaboration with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, DevOps, security, and product stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives. You’ll also play a key role in establishing cloud best practices, mentoring junior team members, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Job Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering:

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure using Azure services.

Lead cloud architecture and platform decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.

Build and maintain reusable infrastructure patterns and blueprints to streamline deployments across environments.

Automation & CI/CD:

Automate deployment and configuration tasks using IaC, scripts, and DevOps pipelines.

Integrate security and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines to support a shift-left approach to DevSecOps.

Security & Compliance:

Ensure that cloud environments meet regulatory and security standards, implementing policies, controls, and audit practices.

Stay up to date on emerging security threats and implement strategies to mitigate them.

Monitoring & Optimization:

Define, implement, and monitor KPIs such as system uptime, deployment success rates, and cost efficiency.

Continuously analyze and optimize cloud performance, availability, and costs.

Collaboration & Delivery:

Collaborate closely with software engineers, DevOps, security, and product teams to deliver cloud infrastructure that supports application goals.

Support high-availability environments for critical workloads and participate in incident response processes as needed.

Leadership & Mentoring:

Provide guidance and technical leadership to cloud and DevOps engineers.

Champion cloud best practices, technical excellence, and a culture of learning and experimentation.

Documentation & Standards:

Maintain high-quality documentation for cloud architecture, workflows, and operating procedures.

Contribute to defining and evolving internal cloud governance and architectural standards.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience: 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles, with a strong focus on Azure.

Certifications (preferred or willing to obtain): Terraform Associate, AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals, AZ-104, Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-400: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate, AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer Associate, AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Technical Skills:

Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, including Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL, Azure Networking, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates.

Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

Proven experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation.

Deep understanding of identity and access management in Azure using Azure AD, role-based access control (RBAC), and Managed Identities.

Strong experience in monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and integrations with platforms like Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana.

Solid grasp of networking principles in cloud environments, including VNETs, NSGs, Application Gateways, and Private Endpoints.

Knowledge of cloud security principles, encryption, compliance frameworks, and implementing secure cloud architectures.

Familiarity with container orchestration and microservices architecture, especially AKS and Docker.

Experience with disaster recovery, backup strategies, and cost optimization in cloud environments.

About Titan Wealth SA (PTY) LTD

51-200 employees

In 2021, Titan Wealth set out to create a top-to-bottom, fully integrated service to make wealth management more efficient – and more effective – for individuals, advisers, businesses and investment professionals alike.

We’re tackling the fragmentation holding back the wealth management sector, its clients and their advisers – to everyone’s frustration. By vertically integrating separate wealth service components under one roof for the first time, we’ve created a better way of working for everyone’s benefit.

Our values are:

Creativity – We relentlessly seek new ways of thinking and new methods of delivering, so we can keep rewriting the rulebook for wealth services.

Commitment – It takes time, effort and energy to make an impact. There’s a ‘can do’ spirit in everything we do: for advisers, individuals, businesses and professional investors.

Collaboration – Bringing the system together allows us to bring people together more effectively: around ambitions, assets, solutions, performance. We’re inviting people to join us and see for themselves the difference we can make as a whole.

Our Cape Town team

Your needs determine where you work – whether that be in our Cape Town office, your home or anywhere else in South Africa that suits your life. Cape Town is our ‘Tech Hub’ with the majority of our engineering team based there. We encourage a work life balance with flexibility on location and hours.

One shared culture

Multi-disciplinary teams working together on challenges and masterfully delivering award-winning, cutting-edge solutions.
An informal atmosphere where leaders are accessible to problem-solve or provide support – in person or remotely.
Your personal wellbeing is front and center with a commitment to making you feel comfortable.

Learn more about Titan Wealth

Why work for us?

Flexible working environment with remote work as the focus, we use Workshop 17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as a co-working location when face-to-face would be beneficial to the team
We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained
We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement
Competitive salary – we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively
Competitive holiday leave – 20+ days’ annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days)
Performance-related discretionary annual bonus
Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution – we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing
Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study