Lead Cloud/Platform Engineer

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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DVT

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1999

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Insurance • Logistics

DVT is a global custom software development and data engineering company. With over 600 staff across offices in South Africa, Kenya, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, DVT provides a range of services including custom software development, mobile app development, Microsoft services, staff augmentation, AI solutions, and cloud application services. DVT partners with clients to transform their businesses through digital transformation and agile consulting. The company focuses on delivering IT solutions across various sectors such as retail, banking, insurance, education, and media. DVT is known for its expertise in software engineering and application modernization, providing agile teams and IT professionals to meet diverse technological needs.

📋 Description

• Help establish a structured and proactive approach to managing the Azure and AWS estate • Establish and improve routine maintenance, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management • Help ensure cloud and platform changes are appropriately planned and tested • Structure and technically prioritise platform work based on risk, lifecycle and operational need • Establish and promote pragmatic cloud engineering standards and best practices • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate cloud management • Proactively identify technical risks and improvement opportunities • Support improvements across security, reliability, resilience and observability • Provide technical guidance and support to the Platform Engineering team • Remain hands-on, contributing to engineering, remediation, automation and continuous improvement • Work alongside Platform Engineers and the Engineering Manager to provide technical stewardship of the cloud estate • Operate in a hands-on technical leadership role without direct people-management responsibility

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience • Demonstrable experience improving management of an existing cloud estate and moving teams from reactive towards proactive cloud management • Experience establishing or improving maintenance, patching, upgrade and lifecycle-management practices • Experience helping establish engineering standards and technical priorities • Strong experience with Azure and AWS, with working knowledge of both cloud environments • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform • Experience with Kubernetes/container platforms and CI/CD • Good understanding of cloud security, reliability, resilience and observability • Ability to identify improvement opportunities proactively and work collaboratively to implement them • 5+ years of commercial experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud solutions using AWS and/or Azure • Experience using automation and configuration management tools such as Python, Puppet or Chef in a production environment • Experience implementing cloud security standards such as NIST, ISO, or HIPAA in a production environment • Matric/Equivalent • Legal right to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Continuous staff training • Sponsored technical events across the AWS & Azure ecosystem • Culture of learning, internal speaking and training