Cloud Platform Engineer

EXCITING FUTURE PROJECT COMING SOON!

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Contract

COMPANY:

Vito Solutions

LOCATION:

Belville, Cape Town

WORKING MODEL:

Hybrid (2 days remote, 3 days in office)

JOB OVERVIEW:

The Cloud Platform Architect will design and govern a secure, scalable and compliant cloud foundation to support national-scale workloads within regulated financial services. The role focuses on cloud landing zones, platform architecture, identity and security, network design, and resilience across multi-cloud environments. Operating in a hybrid model based in Cape Town, the architect will work closely with security, risk, platform, and engineering teams to ensure cloud solutions meet regulatory standards while supporting performance, scalability and cost optimisation.

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

The Cloud Platform Architect will be responsible for the strategic design, governance, and implementation of cloud platform capabilities across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. This includes defining secure landing zones, network architecture, identity and access frameworks, encryption models, and platform services. The role will provide architectural leadership for core banking, payments, data and digital channel workloads. The architect will work with security and risk stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance and operational readiness, while guiding platform scalability, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cost optimisation for large-scale cloud environments.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

- Deep understanding of multi-cloud architecture (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).

- Strong knowledge of security, identity, encryption, and access models.

- Expertise in cloud network design, segmentation and traffic control.

- Knowledge of financial regulatory standards and compliance frameworks.

- Strong architectural design capability for mission-critical workloads.

- Ability to design for high availability, continuity and resilience.

- Experience guiding platform scalability, usage growth and optimisation.

- Ability to collaborate with security, risk, platform and engineering teams.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

- Professional cloud certifications across Azure, AWS or Google Cloud (highly advantageous).

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

- Minimum 8+ years in enterprise cloud or platform architecture.

- Proven experience designing cloud platforms within banking or regulated fintech environments.

- Deep experience across Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud.

- Experience with national-scale or high-availability systems.

- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements, platform security, identity and networking.

- Experience supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and resilience design.

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

- Experience working within large financial services or banking transformation programmes.

- Exposure to platform cost optimisation, observability, automated operations and governance frameworks.

- Ability to evaluate build vs buy models for platform services.

- Experience in architecture leadership across multi-disciplinary teams.

**Please note: If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.