Cellulant

Manager – Cloud Engineering

Cellulant

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Nairobi • Kenya

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDNSEC2FirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOraclePrometheusTerraformVault

About the role

  • Lead & Develop the Cloud Engineering Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of cloud and infrastructure engineers
  • Set & Drive Cloud Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision for multi-cloud and hybrid platforms
  • Architect High-Availability & DR Solutions: Oversee the design and delivery of resilient, fault-tolerant infrastructure
  • Champion Cloud-Native Operations: Lead adoption of container orchestration, service meshes, serverless, and autoscaling frameworks
  • Own Cost & Efficiency Outcomes: Lead cloud financial operations (FinOps), driving cost optimization
  • Ensure Security & Compliance: Oversee secure design and operation of platforms
  • Partner Across Teams: Collaborate with product engineering, release engineering, DBA, networks, and security teams
  • Drive Observability & SRE Practices: Ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing across platforms
  • Evaluate & Adopt Emerging Tech: Lead assessments of new technologies to improve efficiency and resilience
  • Define Standards & Governance: Establish and enforce engineering best practices and governance models
  • Stakeholder Management: Serve as the key point of contact for leadership on cloud initiatives

Requirements

  • 10+ years in Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
  • At least 3–5 years in leadership or management role
  • Proven leadership in hybrid & multi-cloud environments (AWS primary, with exposure to GCP and Azure)
  • Hands-on expertise in AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, Savings Plans)
  • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS, on-prem clusters with Flannel/Calico, Rancher, Karpenter, KEDA)
  • Strong networking expertise (BGP, VXLAN, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, firewalls including Fortigate)
  • Experience in hybrid DR architectures (on-prem ↔ cloud, active-passive failover, database + Kubernetes DR)
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, CloudFormation)
  • Proven track record of cost optimization and FinOps governance in large-scale cloud environments
  • Deep experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Fluentd)
  • Strong security mindset with hands-on experience in IAM, secrets management (Doppler, HashiCorp Vault), compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR, BoT)
  • Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills in Linux environments (RHEL, Rocky, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu)
Benefits
  • Generous personal time off
  • Medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting)
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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloud EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringAWSKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeCost OptimizationObservabilitySecurityTroubleshootingPerformance Optimization
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringCollaborationStakeholder ManagementStrategic PlanningCommunicationTeam ManagementProblem SolvingGovernanceAdaptability