Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions Architect
We are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions Architect to define and lead the organization’s infrastructure strategy across data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments. This individual will architect secure, resilient, and scalable solutions supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with a strong focus on automation, compliance, and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Architecture & Planning:
- Define and maintain target-state infrastructure architecture across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
- Lead the roadmap for infrastructure modernization including virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, containerization, and network overlays.
- Develop infrastructure blueprints and patterns for compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and network services.
- Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architecture principles, performance objectives, and SLAs.
Cloud and Hybrid Enablement:
- Architect and manage hybrid and multi-cloud environments using AWS, Azure, and private cloud platforms.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
- Design cloud landing zones, VPC architectures, identity federation, and interconnect strategies.
- Ensure cloud workloads are observable, cost-efficient, and scalable.
Security, Resilience & Compliance:
- Embed security-by-design principles, such as zero trust, micro-segmentation, encryption, and access control.
- Design and implement HA/DR solutions ensuring geographic redundancy and business continuity.
- Ensure infrastructure is compliant with industry standards and regulatory frameworks such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and GDPR.
- Support security initiatives including risk assessments, penetration testing, and secure-by-design reviews.
Governance & Collaboration:
- Participate in architecture governance boards and ensure solutions align with broader IT strategy.
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, security, and operations teams to enhance platform reliability and automation.
- Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and technical standards.
- Liaise with vendors, technology partners, and cloud providers to evaluate and implement new solutions.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Delivery of infrastructure blueprint aligned with enterprise architecture within the first 90 days.
- Cloud readiness enablement for legacy workloads via IaC deployments.
- Deployment of observability tooling and SLAs across critical platforms.
- Reduction in configuration drift through reusable templates and blueprints.
- Secure and compliant cloud migration playbooks and automated cutover strategies.
Technical Experience & Skills:
- 8+ years in infrastructure and/or cloud architecture in complex, high-availability environments.
- Strong experience across compute, storage, virtualization, cloud network architecture, and disaster recovery.
- Proficiency with hybrid and multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and private cloud.
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), platform engineering, service mesh, and secure enclave deployments.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure automation (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure observability.
- Knowledge of layered security, identity federation, and Zero Trust Architecture.
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR.
- Experience in designing scalable and resilient infrastructure for high-traffic platforms.
- Strong understanding of secure cloud architecture, including federated identity, encryption, and compliance tooling.
Desirable:
- Kubernetes cluster design and operations experience.
- Integration experience with observability platforms like Datadog or Splunk.
- Familiarity with edge computing, CDN strategies, and backend scaling techniques.
- Relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with continuous delivery, automated release management, and DevSecOps practices.
- Domain experience in Financial Services or FinTech is a strong plus.
- Experience with vendor assessment and due diligence for technology selection.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Engineering, or a related field.
- Equivalent work experience will also be considered.
- Agile and Waterfall delivery experience.
Location:
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
Workplace Type:
- Hybrid
Job Type:
- Contract
Experience Type:
- Senior
If you have what it takes, please reach out to Kivara Rajgopal on [Email Address Removed] or [Phone Number Removed];
Desired Skills:
- Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- Architecture
- DevOps
- Deployments
- Containerisation
Desired Qualification Level:
- Diploma