Cloud Engineer

The organisation is recruiting a Cloud Engineer for its Welkom operation. The role forms part of a wider it jobs portfolio across Free State.

About the Opportunity

In addition, the Cloud Engineer vacancy forms part of how the Welkom branch keeps performing. It pairs day-to-day delivery with longer-running priorities that keep the it jobs side of the business moving forward.

Importantly, the successful applicant is given the room to plan, deliver and review their work without unnecessary noise. The organisation has built its Welkom team on trust, and the Cloud Engineer role will feel that from week one.

Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the it jobs group in Welkom.

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 Welkom much easier.

About the Team

You will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that knows the it jobs side of the business inside out. The Welkom group is a healthy mix of experienced operators and newer joiners, all of whom share a strong commitment to delivery and to one another.

Collaboration is the default working mode. Whether picking up a quick query or working through a complex project, you will find colleagues willing to lean in and help.

Line management is hands-on without being heavy. Expect regular one-to-ones, honest feedback and the support needed to do good work consistently.

Beyond that, the team mix in Welkom reflects a balance of experienced operators and emerging talent, with deliberate space for diverse voices and backgrounds.

Working in Welkom

Beyond that, the role is based in Welkom, in the Welkom gold fields. Public transport links and parking are within easy reach, making the daily commute manageable for candidates living across Welkom and the broader Free State region.

Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Welkom.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Welkom, Free State.

Many candidates already living within reach of Welkom cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Free State economy.

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.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Welkom.

In addition, the Welkom 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.

Beyond that, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Free State operations throw up the unexpected.

The Environment

Importantly, the environment is hybrid-friendly where the role allows, with collaborative tooling, modern source-control workflows and a strong emphasis on shared ownership of code and incidents.

Notably, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

A respectful, professional environment is the standard in Free State. Bullying, harassment and unfair conduct have no place here, and managers are trained to act decisively when concerns are raised.

Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Welkom site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

Your Role

• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards
• Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
• Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts and tooling

Essential Criteria

• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• Relevant IT qualification (degree, diploma or recognised certifications)
• Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
• Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Potential is considered alongside experience, so candidates who tick most of these boxes should still be considered.