Work-Force
Applications are warmly invited for a Cloud Engineer role based in Mmabatho. We welcome candidates from every background across North West who are ready to grow with us.
What This Role Involves
The organisation is investing in its Mmabatho operation, and this Cloud Engineer position reflects that commitment. The successful candidate will work across the it jobs function and contribute to the wider North West business.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Mmabatho team.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the it jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Mmabatho much easier.
Equal Opportunity
Diverse teams build stronger workplaces. Applications are welcome from candidates of every background, language and community across North West, and recruitment is fair, transparent and aligned with the EE Act.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Mmabatho.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across North West.
What Your Day Looks Like
Your day tends to start with a quick standup, where the team shares progress and surfaces blockers. From there, you settle into focused build time, breaking tickets into manageable chunks and pairing with colleagues when something gets thorny. Afternoons mix code reviews, planning discussions and the occasional production incident — everyone pulls together, fixes the issue and feeds the lessons back into the next sprint. By the time you sign off, you’ve shipped value, learned something new, and left clean code behind you.
Importantly, the Mmabatho office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Mmabatho.
Core Functions
- Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
- Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
- Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
- Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and runbooks
Minimum Requirements
- Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
- Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
- Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
- Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) is an advantage
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
Potential is considered alongside experience, so candidates who tick most of these boxes should still be considered.