Cloud Engineer

Looking for your next move as a Cloud Engineer in Hartbeespoort? A role has just opened that gives you real responsibility and a clear path forward in North West.

About the Opportunity

This Cloud Engineer role has been briefed against a clear set of outcomes for Hartbeespoort. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the it jobs pipeline across North West.

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 Hartbeespoort team.

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 Hartbeespoort.

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.

The rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when North West operations throw up the unexpected.

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

The Environment

Beyond that, 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.

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

Equally, 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.

Our Commitment to Transformation

Beyond that, the organisation is committed to transformation and equal opportunity. Hiring is on merit, and applications are actively encouraged from women, youth, people with disabilities and other historically disadvantaged groups in line with the Employment Equity plan and B-BBEE objectives.

B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across North West.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts and tooling
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions
• Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts

Candidate Profile

• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
• Relevant IT qualification (degree, diploma or recognised certifications)
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling

If your CV speaks to the points above, this role is worth a closer look.