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Associate Director (Cloud Platform Architect)

Nagarro


Job Location:

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 19 October 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 16 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

Must have Skills : DevOps - Azure (Strong) Cloud Architecture (Strong) DevSecOps

Ideal profile:

  • A strong combination of Platform Architect Cloud Engineer SRE Performance Engineer DevOps Leader with the ability to lead teams while remaining technically hands-on.
  • Lead the Platform Engineering function across Azure Cloud DevOps SRE Performance Engineering Application Modernization and Developer Enablement.
  • Define and drive the platform architecture engineering strategy standards and technology roadmap for a scalable enterprise platform.
  • Provide strong hands-on expertise in Azure AKS Kubernetes networking API Management databases messaging and cloud-native services.
  • Establish Golden Paths / Paved Roads reusable platform capabilities engineering standards and self-service developer experiences.
  • Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD DevSecOps Infrastructure as Code GitOps and automated deployment practices.
  • Establish and drive SRE practices including SLI/SLO reliability engineering incident management RCA resilience and disaster recovery.
  • Drive end-to-end performance and production troubleshooting from application/API through Kubernetes Azure infrastructure databases and external dependencies.
  • Establish a comprehensive observability strategy covering metrics logs distributed tracing dashboards alerting and proactive performance monitoring.
  • Define and enforce security governance identity secrets management policy-as-code and compliance standards across the platform.
  • Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions are scalable resilient secure cost-effective and operationally ready.
  • Mentor and provide technical direction to engineers across Platform DevOps SRE Performance Engineering and Application teams.
  • Collaborate closely with Architecture Product Development Security Infrastructure and Operations teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate delivery.
  • Be a hands-on technical leader who can move from architecture and strategy to implementation troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues.

Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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