Dots Africa

Cloud Engineer

• Own and lead the organisation’s cloud and infrastructure strategy across Azure and AWS
• Take full responsibility for the design, implementation, and operation of all cloud infrastructure
• Assess the current cloud and infrastructure landscape and drive immediate improvements where required
• Define and enforce cloud architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
• Design and maintain highly available, secure, and resilient systems, including DR and failover strategies
• Own cloud security posture, including identity, access controls, network security, and platform hardening
• Establish and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across all environments
• Drive cost optimisation initiatives and ensure cloud spend is well understood, controlled, and efficient
• Ensure operational excellence through documentation, runbooks, and clear ownership models
• Partner closely with engineering, DevOps, security, and compliance teams to enable scalable delivery
• Act as the final authority on cloud and infrastructure decisions
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and lead root-cause analysis efforts
• Ensure environments meet performance, reliability, and compliance requirements at all times
• Stay current with cloud platform advancements and continuously evolve the infrastructure strategy
• Mentor and uplift engineers on cloud best practices, architecture, and operational maturity

Lead Cloud Engineer