Cloud Engineer

Role: Cloud Engineer. Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.

About This Position

This Cloud Engineer role sits within the it jobs function in Durban. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across KwaZulu-Natal.

Communication runs both ways. Managers across the it jobs team in KwaZulu-Natal make time for one-to-ones, and people are expected to speak up early when something needs attention.

Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Cloud Engineer is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in KwaZulu-Natal is consistently high and consistently fair.

Our Commitment to Transformation

The organisation supports a respectful workplace. Applications are welcome from suitably qualified candidates across KwaZulu-Natal, and recruitment is intended to be fair and transparent.

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.

Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Durban.

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 Durban.

On top of that, the Durban 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.

Based in Durban

Durban continues to grow as an employment hub in KwaZulu-Natal, with within the Pietermaritzburg administrative centre. This role gives you a foothold in one of its busier business communities, with access to the local services, suppliers and partners that keep the work moving.

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 Durban.

Candidates should review the listed location, schedule and travel requirements before applying for this role in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
• Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
• Design, develop and maintain features across the application stack
• Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards

What You’ll Need

• Comfortable working in agile delivery teams
• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
• Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases

Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.