Role Overview

One of South Africa's Banking Giants is looking for a Cloud Engineer with a strong Networking focus to join their team.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate should have deep networking knowledge and experience, with cloud expertise built on top of that foundation. The hiring team is specifically looking for candidates who understand networking from first principles and who can operate comfortably in complex cloud and hybrid environments. Key Requirements:
Strong networking fundamentals (routing, switching, network architecture, network security)
Experience in traditional on-premises networking environments and/or hybrid cloud environments
Strong AWS experience, particularly AWS networking services
Experience with:
VPCs
Transit Gateways
VPNs
Direct Connect
Hybrid connectivity
Ability to troubleshoot connectivity and infrastructure issues beyond standard runbooks.
Familiarity with authentication and authorisation protocols such as:
Active Directory
LDAP
Kerberos
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
SAML
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native technologies

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Telecommunications organisations
Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
Enterprise networking teams
Network architecture environments
Network security teams
Infrastructure engineering teams
Cloud networking roles
Certifications of Interest: The following certifications would be advantageous: Cisco
CCNA
CCNP
CCIE
Juniper
JNCIA
JNCIP
JNCIE
Fortinet
NSE4
NSE6
NSE7
NSE8
Additional certifications from vendors such as Check Point and Arista would also be beneficial.