Lead Cloud Engineer

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time
Job title : Lead Cloud EngineerJob Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : December 11, 2024Quick Recommended Links
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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.

Competency Requirements

Behaviors

  • Customer Focus
  • 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.

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