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Senior Hybrid Cloud / DevOps / Infrastructure AI Engineer 100% Remote | R800 per hour

Summary

Senior engineer builds and stabilizes hybrid cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP + on-prem) for AI clients, modernizing platforms and optimizing performance, cost, and resilience.

We are partnering with an elite AI and data-driven consulting group seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer to join high-impact client environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges — stabilising environments, modernising platforms, and building scalable hybrid cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

If you’re the engineer teams call when systems need structure, resilience, and optimisation, this opportunity could be for you.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and operating hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + AWS / Azure / GCP)
  • Leading on-prem - cloud or hybrid migrations with minimal downtime
  • Driving cloud optimisation across performance, scalability, and cost
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK
  • Ensuring security, resilience, DR, and compliance best practices
  • Modernising and maintaining on-prem environments
  • Collaborating with DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams to support CI/CD pipelines
  • Providing hands‑on technical leadership within engineering teams
  • Supporting capacity planning and on‑call rotations where required
  • Producing clear architecture and operational documentation

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong expertise in hybrid cloud environments
  • Experience delivering in complex, client‑facing consulting environments
  • Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation
  • Ability to work independently and influence technical direction
  • Comfortable stepping into unfamiliar environments and bringing stability quickly

The Environment

  • 100% remote contract work
  • High‑end consulting engagements
  • Engineers trusted to lead technically and solve real problems

Referral fees paid for successful introductions

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