As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and management of
cloud-based solutions and infrastructure. A lead will provide technical leadership to a team of cloud engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency in cloud services.
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and management of cloud-based solutions and infrastructure. A lead will provide technical leadership to a team of cloud engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency in cloud services.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Cloud Architecture and Strategy
- Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures based on business requirements.
- Define cloud adoption strategies, migration plans, and roadmap for optimizing cloud services.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend solutions to enhance performance and innovation.
Team Leadership and Mentorship
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and coach team members, facilitating their professional growth and development.
- Collaborate with hiring managers to recruit and onboard new cloud engineering talent.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation
- Champion infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and automation initiatives using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Implement automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment of cloud resources to improve efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cloud infrastructure into CI/CD pipelines.
Cloud Operations and Optimization
- Oversee cloud infrastructure operations, monitoring performance, availability, and cost.
- Implement best practices for cloud resource optimization, including rightsizing, cost allocation, and budget management.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts and resolution of complex cloud-related issues.
Security and Compliance
- Define and enforce cloud security policies, controls, and compliance requirements.
- Conduct regular security assessments and audits of cloud environments, addressing vulnerabilities and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement and improve cloud security measures.
Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable cloud solutions.
- Communicate cloud architecture designs, strategies, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with business leaders, ensuring alignment of cloud initiatives with organizational goals.
Self-Management & Leadership
- Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others.
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures. Plan and priorities, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change. Demonstrate flexibility. in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs. Drive customer centricity
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of database administrators
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal processes.
- Plan and prioritize, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational requirements.
- Demonstrate attention to detail.
- Demonstrate good organizational skills, planning, prioritizing and execution.
- Demonstrate good time management, essential for good self-management.
- Demonstrate good goal setting skills in maintaining productivity.
- Demonstrate good self-motivation to ensure progress on projects and activities.
Work Collaboratively
- Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation.
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective
collaboration between teams.
Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing,
- communication, and collaboration across the organisation.
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions.
- Demonstrate ability to work in teams.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels.
Job Requirements
Competency Requirements
Behaviors
- Customer Focus ebfRBZt BTn6yA
- Instills Trust
- Cultivates Innovation
- Collaborates
- Situational Adaptability
- Business Insight
- Manages Complexity
- Plans and Aligns
- Balances Stakeholders
- Ensures Accountability
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Customer Focus
- Situational Adaptability
- Tech Savvy
Leadership
- Ensures Accountability
- Managing others
- Communicating goals
- Organizing work
- Allocating and managing resources
- Delegating tasks
- Leading by example
- Problem solving
- Ensuring team members are trained
- Encourage collaboration
- Demonstrate honesty and integrity.
- Strive for Customer Centricity
- Innovate boldly
- Be both agile and entrepreneurial
- Build relationships and trust
- Develop people for long-term success
- Be an agent of change
- Collaborative
Minimum Academic, Professional Qualifications & Experience required for this position
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a Business Administration, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, ITIL) preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership position.
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud architectures using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms
- Strong background in infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
Other required skills
- Deep understanding of cloud security best practices, compliance requirements, and governance frameworks.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and drive innovation in cloud services.
- Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable.
More Information
- Job City Sandton, South Africa
