# Cloud Engineer

Job Description Technical Direction and Design Designs and maintains reusable infrastructure-as-code modules across both cloud platforms, within the architecture standards set by the Group Architect. Determines the technical approach for assigned work, including environment separation, state management and change review. Brings unmanaged cloud resources under code, mostly by replacing them during modernisation rather than retrospective cleanup. Delivery and Service Operations Builds and maintains deployment pipelines with plan-on-pull-request, apply-on-approval, environment gates and required reviewers. Uses federated workload identity in place of stored credentials, without exception. Maintains the container build and image supply chain: registries, scanning, base image currency. Operates the platform services the team builds, including monitoring, capacity, patching, backup verification and recovery testing. Participates in incident response, including a support rotation, and turns causes into changes that prevent recurrence rather than detect it sooner. Supports migration and modernisation of workloads: containerising, re-hosting or retiring. Governance, Risk and Compliance Impl

- **Id**: 4064175
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ignition-group-cloud-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Durban, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T10:25:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:09:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6278
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Design & Creative, Logistics

## Company

- **Id**: 2927417
- **Name**: Ignition Group
- **Domain**: ignitiongroup.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ignitiongroup>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: MCI DirectHire

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T10:25:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T18:29:32Z

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