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Cloud Engineer
Introduction
An established organisation is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join its team in Cradock. This role will contribute to software, systems, and digital capability across a growing operational landscape. The position offers the opportunity to work on meaningful systems, applications, infrastructure, or digital services depending on the portfolio and team structure.
This position is well suited to a professional who can combine strong technical fundamentals with a practical, service-oriented approach to delivery and support. The successful candidate will be expected to work with appropriate urgency, maintain quality standards, and support a collaborative delivery culture while contributing to business-facing outcomes.
Duties & Responsibilities
The position requires a balance of technical execution, documentation discipline, and effective collaboration across teams.
- Work with internal stakeholders, service providers, and project teams on upgrades, enhancements, and issue resolution.
- Maintain documentation for environments, processes, access control, and change activities.
- Assist with deployments, configuration changes, patching, backup checks, and recovery readiness.
- Monitor environments, investigate incidents, and implement corrective actions or preventative improvements.
- Contribute to resilience, scalability, and service continuity planning.
- Support infrastructure, cloud, network, security, or platform components to maintain availability, performance, and control.
Desired Experience & Qualification
The ideal candidate will combine relevant technical capability with strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Relevant diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Development, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Exposure to infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, monitoring, administration, or environment support relevant to the role.
- Understanding of operational controls, technical troubleshooting, and change management discipline.
- Good working knowledge of documentation standards, structured problem-solving, and stakeholder communication.
- Typically suited to candidates with around 3–6 years relevant experience and the ability to manage core responsibilities independently.