Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer will provide advanced technical expertise in the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud environments. This position is crucial for supporting the organization’s cloud-first strategy by enabling reliable deployment, integration, and operation of cloud-based solutions that align with digital and business objectives.

1. Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and adherence to architectural standards.
2. Apply technical standards aligned with the approved cloud strategy and advise management on the technical impact of business and architectural decisions.
3. Provide expert technical input for functional plans and support the delivery of strategic initiatives within a 6–12 month horizon.
4. Support the deployment and operation of applications in cloud environments, including automation, monitoring, and performance optimization.
5. Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to support cloud integration, DevOps practices, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
6. Monitor cloud performance and usage, identifying opportunities for optimization, cost reduction, and improved system resilience.
7. Resolve complex or escalated technical matters and contribute to service improvement through analysis and recommendations.
8. Implement cloud security, governance, and cost management practices to ensure compliance, efficiency, and risk mitigation.
9. Ensure technical work complies with organizational policies and regulatory requirements, supporting audit and regulatory reviews as needed.
10. Identify and report technical risks, control gaps, trends, or anomalies, escalating issues beyond technical authority to management.
11. Exercise sound judgment on decisions affecting cloud spend, resources, and service availability within the area of responsibility.
12. Prepare accurate technical reports and analysis, contributing technical input to functional reporting.
13. Maintain accurate documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, methods, and decisions.
14. Engage internal stakeholders (Application Development / DevOps, Digital & IT leadership, Information Security) and external partners (cloud service providers, third-party vendors, managed service providers, and systems integrators) on technical matters.
15. Communicate complex technical information clearly and simply to management and non-technical stakeholders.
16. Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing within the function, and coordinate project work without formal people-management authority.
17. Promote high professional, technical, and ethical standards, and attend agreed-upon training.

1. Bachelor’s degree is essential; a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is an added advantage.
2. Expertise in designing, building, and operating secure, scalable workloads on major public cloud platforms.
3. Ability to provision and manage infrastructure through code, scripting, and automated workflows (Infrastructure as Code and Automation).
4. Sound knowledge of cloud security controls, identity and access management, policy enforcement, and cost governance.
5. Experience building and supporting deployment pipelines and DevOps practices that enable continuous delivery (DevOps and CI/CD).
6. Understanding of cloud and hybrid networking, connectivity, and integration with on-premises and third-party systems.
7. Ability to implement observability, tune performance, and design for availability and recovery.
8. Acts as a trusted technical authority and raises engineering standards across the team (Technical Leadership and Expertise).
9. Diagnoses complex technical issues and develops practical, sustainable solutions (Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking).
10. Works across functions and with external partners to align on standards and outcomes (Collaboration and Influencing).
11. Explains complex technical matters clearly to technical and non-technical audiences (Communication).
12. Takes ownership of outcomes and delivers reliable results within agreed timelines (Drive for Results and Accountability).
13. Demonstrable proficiency in leveraging AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and decision-making.
14. Any related professional qualification will be an added advantage.
15. Minimum of 3–5 years of specialist practice in cloud engineering or a related discipline.
16. 3–5 years of experience applying regulatory, technical, or analytical frameworks in an operational environment.
17. Advanced computer literacy.