Cloud Engineer

About the role

A full-time, middle-level Cloud Engineer position at APA Life Assurance in Nairobi, advertised by Corporate Staffing Services. The role covers cloud infrastructure, operations, security, governance and cost management, with stakeholder engagement and technical leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage cloud infrastructure, applying technical standards to the approved cloud strategy and advising management on technical impacts.
• Support application deployment and operation, including automation, monitoring, performance optimisation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor cloud performance and usage, identify optimisation and cost-reduction opportunities, and resolve escalated technical matters.
• Implement cloud security, governance and cost management, ensure compliance with policies and regulations, and support audits.
• Report technical risks, control gaps and anomalies, and maintain accurate documentation of architectures, configurations and decisions.
• Engage internal stakeholders and external partners such as cloud providers and vendors, and mentor colleagues.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree is essential; Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of specialist practice in cloud engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience applying regulatory, technical or analytical frameworks in an operational environment.
• Advanced computer literacy.

Required skills

• Expertise in designing and operating secure, scalable workloads on major public cloud platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code and automation via scripting and automated workflows.
• Cloud security controls, identity and access management, policy enforcement and cost governance.
• DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud and hybrid networking, observability, performance tuning and resilience design.
• Demonstrable use of AI tools to improve automation, operations and decision-making.