Cloud Infrastructure Manager at Datonomy Solutions

About the position

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead and scale the engineering capability behind our cloud platforms. This role forms a key part of the Technology Solutions leadership team, sitting alongside our Cloud Architect and reporting to the Head of Technology Solutions. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Cloud Engineers, SREs, and DevSecOps experts who thrive on innovation and impact.
• Drive the execution of our Cloud Infrastructure roadmap, aligning with Mukuru’s strategic platform and business goals.
• Take ownership of Mukuru’s AWS-based cloud environments – defined as infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and containerised with Kubernetes – ensuring performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience at every stage of the SDLC.
• Champion DevOps culture across engineering, fostering collaboration, shared ownership, and continuous delivery practices.
• Ensure uptime and recovery goals are met, and oversee compliance with RTOs, RPOs, patching, monitoring, and alerting standards.
• Partner closely with our Cloud Architect to deliver well-architected, observable, and cost-optimised infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate across the business – from Platform Engineering and Product, to Software Engineering, Security, and Governance – to enable cross-functional success.
• Implement and maintain controls aligned to compliance frameworks like PCI-DSS and ISO27001.
• Build and manage tooling across CI/CD, observability, documentation, and cloud cost monitoring.
• Drive innovation by enabling teams with the right tools, autonomy, and environment to experiment, iterate, and deliver value.
• Manage team capacity, budgets, and ongoing capability growth in line with emerging technologies and business needs.

Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent.
• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (desirable).
• Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations (AWS).
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Containerisation with Kubernetes.
• Linux system administration and scripting.
• CI/CD pipeline design and management.
• Incident and outage management.t
• Cloud cost optimisation strategies.
• Cloud security best practices and governance.
• Compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, ISO27001).
• Cloud monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.
• Infrastructure monitoring and logging solutions.
• Cloud environment performance tuning.
• Resilience and disaster recovery planning.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams (Platform, Security, Product, Software Engineering).
• DevOps culture and practices (shared ownership, continuous delivery).
• Automation of infrastructure deployment and management.
• Budget and capacity planning
• Agile practices and mindset.

Desired Skills:

• cloud
• Infrastructure
• manager