Cloud Solutions Architect

What will you do?

Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS and Azure solutions. Partner with business, security, and engineering to translate requirements into cloud-native architectures and lead hands-on implementation, automation, migration, and operationalization.

What will make you successful in this role?

Minimum Qualification Required
•    Grade 12 Senior Certificate
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information systems or equivalent
•    AWS: Solutions Architect – Professional
•    Azure: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Minimum Experience
•    5–10+ years in cloud engineering/architecture with production delivery in both AWS and Azure
•    5–10+ years in cloud engineering/architecture with production delivery in hybrid environments
•    Strong understanding of network protocols, such as IPv4, OSPF, BGP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs
•    Experience with network troubleshooting using tools like ping, traceroute, Wireshark, and other diagnostic utilities
•    Experience with network security, including firewalls, VPNs, NAT, access control lists (ACLs), and intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS)
•    Must have a broad understanding SD WAN and MPLS networks
•    Must be proficient in both verbal and written communication in English
•    Extensive knowledge of cloud networking (AWS, Azure, etc.) is an advantage
•    Monitoring performance and health across environments and various products

Deliverables include, but will not be limited to
•    Lead architecture for net-new and modernization initiatives across AWS and Azure (multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge patterns)
•    Produce HLDs/LLDs, reference architectures, sequence diagrams, and decision records
•    Select cloud-native services vs. containers vs. serverless vs. Kubernetes based on workload fit, cost, performance, resilience, and compliance
•    Design for multi-account/subscription patterns (landing zones, networking, IAM/Entra ID, governance, policies)
•    Lead hands-on build and migration: infrastructure-as-code, pipelines, landing zones, networking, security controls, observability
•    Container and serverless delivery: EKS/AKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, Azure Functions, event-driven architectures
•    Disaster Recovery and Redundancy Plans
•    Embed security-by-design
•    Implement guardrails: AWS Control Tower / Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
•    Collaborate with Security/Compliance on CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, POPIA
•    Architect and implement monitoring, logging, tracing, SLO/SLA, alerting, runbooks, autoscaling, backup/DR, and testing
•    Run architecture workshops and PoCs
•    Provide technical leadership and mentoring
•    Document solution decisions and present to forums
•    Cost review and optimization for cloud workloads

Competencies Required
•    Organization and time-management
•    Communication
•    Problem-solving
•    Teamwork
•    Life-long learner
•    Accountability

Knowledge and Skills

Personal Attributes

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. Deadline to apply: 20 March 2026.

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