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Cloud Engineer

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, deployments, and reliability controls.

payments Avg: R80,000

description Overview

Cloud Engineers manage cloud services, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and cost optimisation.

**A Day in the Life:**
Infrastructure updates, deployment support, monitoring, and reliability improvements.

schedule A Day in the Life

08:30

Review monitoring and cloud spend alerts

10:00

IaC changes and environment provisioning

13:00

Deployment support and incident resolution

15:30

Security, backups, and documentation

trending_up Career Path

Step 1

SysAdmin / Junior Cloud

0-2

Step 2

Cloud Engineer

2-5

Step 3

Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer

5-8

Step 4

Cloud Architect

8+

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Salary Range

R 40,000 - R 140,000

Soft Skills

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Technical Skills

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