Cloud Infrastructure Manager at Datonomy Solutions

Datonomy Solutions


Date: 1 day ago
City: Cape Town, Western Cape
Contract type: Full time
We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead and scale the engineering capability behind our cloud platforms. This role forms a key part of the Technology Solutions leadership team, sitting alongside our Cloud Architect and reporting to the Head of Technology Solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Cloud Engineers, SREs, and DevSecOps experts who thrive on innovation and impact.
  • Drive the execution of our Cloud Infrastructure roadmap, aligning with Mukuru's strategic platform and business goals.
  • Take ownership of Mukuru's AWS-based cloud environments – defined as infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and containerised with Kubernetes – ensuring performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience at every stage of the SDLC.
  • Champion DevOps culture across engineering, fostering collaboration, shared ownership, and continuous delivery practices.
  • Ensure uptime and recovery goals are met, and oversee compliance with RTOs, RPOs, patching, monitoring, and alerting standards.
  • Partner closely with our Cloud Architect to deliver well-architected, observable, and cost-optimised infrastructure solutions.
  • Collaborate across the business – from Platform Engineering and Product, to Software Engineering, Security, and Governance – to enable cross-functional success.
  • Implement and maintain controls aligned to compliance frameworks like PCI-DSS and ISO27001.
  • Build and manage tooling across CI/CD, observability, documentation, and cloud cost monitoring.
  • Drive innovation by enabling teams with the right tools, autonomy, and environment to experiment, iterate, and deliver value.
  • Manage team capacity, budgets, and ongoing capability growth in line with emerging technologies and business needs.

Requirements

  • Grade 12 or equivalent.
  • Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (desirable).
  • Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations (AWS).
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform.
  • Containerisation with Kubernetes.
  • Linux system administration and scripting.
  • CI/CD pipeline design and management.
  • Incident and outage management.t
  • Cloud cost optimisation strategies.
  • Cloud security best practices and governance.
  • Compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, ISO27001).
  • Cloud monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.
  • Infrastructure monitoring and logging solutions.
  • Cloud environment performance tuning.
  • Resilience and disaster recovery planning.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams (Platform, Security, Product, Software Engineering).
  • DevOps culture and practices (shared ownership, continuous delivery).
  • Automation of infrastructure deployment and management.
  • Budget and capacity planning
  • Agile practices and mindset.

Desired Skills

  • cloud
  • Infrastructure
  • manager
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