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Senior Cloud Engineer

Cape Town💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for infrastructure substrate stability, security, and cost-effectiveness across GCP and AWS.

Role type

Senior IC Cloud Engineer (Infrastructure & SRE)

Builds

Production cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and observability backends for a global commerce partnership platform.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Security Operations, FinOps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), GCP, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning, incident response, cloud cost optimization

Preferred skills

Google SRE principles, IaC module design, automated drift detection

Technologies

Terraform, GCP, AWS, GKE, EKS, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry

Responsibilities

Author and maintain IaC modules for GCP and AWS; manage lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters and compute instances; maintain observability backends and ensure log pipeline uptime; participate in on-call rotation and execute vulnerability remediation; support cloud spend governance and rightsizing.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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