Cloud Platform Engineer
Executive Placements · Kensington
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Start free — we apply for you →Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud infrastructure for a forward-thinking organization at the forefront of the banking, fintech, and IT sectors? Our client, an established company with a commitment to innovation and operational excellence, is seeking a talented Cloud Platform Engineer to support their growth by strengthening their infrastructure capabilities. This is an excellent opportunity for a professional with proven AWS expertise and a passion for designing resilient, scalable, and secure cloud environments.
Duties
- Support the development and implementation of the organisation's infrastructure strategy.
- Design and deploy cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Develop technical specifications and architectural blueprints for highly available, resilient, and scalable environments.
- Provide guidance on AWS and other cloud technologies to ensure optimal service selection and cost efficiency.
- Assist in defining and maintaining cloud security standards, procedures, and controls.
- Support the identification and mitigation of infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operational risks.
- Engineer, manage, and support cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies.
- Manage cloud environments, hosted services, and on-premises infrastructure platforms.
- Perform operational maintenance, upgrades, patching, and ongoing support of servers and operating systems.
- Design and implement backup, recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Ensure infrastructure reliability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Support platform optimisation initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
- Act as a technical advisor for new infrastructure and platform requests.
- Assist with workload prioritisation and allocation across platform initiatives.
- Promote engineering best practices, automation, and operational excellence.
- Mentor and support technical team members.
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of DevOps and Platform Engineering capabilities.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles.
- Deep experience with AWS services including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, EKS/ECS.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, governance, security, and operational best practices.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and methodologies.
- Experience with cloud security standards and risk mitigation.
- Proven ability to support and optimise cloud environments.
Familiarity with the following
- CSS3
- Accounting Standards
What We'll Give You
- An engaging hybrid work environment in Gauteng.
- The opp
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