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Senior Solutions Architect

Johannesburg, South AfricaFound today
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Job Purpose

To envision, architect, and lead the development of fit-for-purpose, integrated end-to-end technology solutions across multiple platforms and cloud environments. Provide technical leadership in designing scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud-native architectures while driving modernisation, innovation, governance, and engineering excellence across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and govern cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud solutions.

  • Lead architecture decisions across Azure.

  • Define cloud adoption, migration, modernisation, and optimisation strategies.

  • Design scalable, secure, highly available distributed systems.

  • Establish cloud architecture standards and reference architectures.

  • Drive Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps adoption.

  • Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical governance.

  • Lead application modernisation using microservices, containers, Kubernetes and serverless technologies.

  • Mentor and coach engineering practitioners.

Minimum Experience

Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and technology leadership roles, including at least 3-5 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud solutions on Azure.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Cloud Architecture and Design Patterns

  • Azure, Kubernetes and Containers

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • DevOps and DevSecOps

  • Distributed Systems Design

  • Cloud Security and Identity Management

  • FinOps and Cost Optimisation

Preferred Certifications

  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert

  • AWS Solutions Architect

  • Google Professional Cloud Architect

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate

  • TOGAF

  • ITIL

Desired Skills:

  • Systems Analysis
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Programming/configuration
  • Critical Thinking
  • Time Management

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