Associate Director (Cloud Platform Architect)
Johannesburg - South Africa
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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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