Cloud Engineer

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Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for managing and overseeing Old Mutual's cloud infrastructure, including designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based technologies, optimizing cloud usage and performance, and ensuring the security and availability of the cloud environment.

This job will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide technical expertise, coaching and support for cloud-related initiatives.

• Implementation of cloud architecture standards and principles
• Define and implement cloud engineering patterns & standards
• Automation - Development of automation systems to enable scale and speed. Removal of any manual processes within the cloud environment
• Identify PaaS and SaaS services for the Ecosystem
• Define standards together with cloud architecture and security for usage of services and development of self‑service capability for the identified service
• Define monitoring and reporting requirements
• Implementation of monitoring for ecosystem
• Inclusion of monitoring practices for services and infrastructure automation
• Continuous Improvement – Cost Optimisation, Performance Improvement, Capacity management
• Liaise with vendors to drive the selection and procurement of cloud enabling technologies and services
• Manage Networking of cloud environments
• Ensure Recovery
• Manage Infrastructure Availability and Resilience
• Define and implement cloud policies
• Manage governance and compliance for cloud
• Incident Management for cloud environments
• Management of OM Landing zones -- Multicloud
• Management of centralized platforms on cloud e.g EKS, ECS
• Assessment of maturity of squad's cloud practice adoption and creation of plans and processes to improve maturity

A numerate Bachelor's Degree ( e. g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering) with minimum or equivalent technical qualification.

5 years of professional experience.

Relevant cloud certification.

• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google
• Dev Ops
• Cloud Engineering and operations practices
• Problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Infrastructure as code (Eg, Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Cloud security
• Cloud Networking
• Agile/ SAFe
• Coding and scripting (Eg. Python, Bash, Powershell)

Adaptive Thinking, Change Management, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure Management, Computer Network Security, Cost Account Management, Cost Budgeting, Data Analysis, Data Collection Methods, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), IT Network Security, Performance Improvements, Project Integration Management, Project Life Cycle Management, System Architecture Analysis, System Requirements Analysis, Virtualization, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

21 February 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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