# Cloud Engineer

Job Description required for ISO 27001 and internal audit. Cost Management & Optimisation Track and report spend across all cloud providers and hosting by workload and department. Monitor consumption against budget and alert on variance before it becomes material. Implement optimisation, including rightsizing, reserved instances and committed-use discounts, storage tiering and decommissioning of unused resources. Compare the cost of running workloads in public cloud, with independent providers and in co-location, and recommend the most cost-effective placement. Alignment, Reporting & Escalation Align work to, and execute, the direction and strategy set by the IT Executive. Communicate progress and escalate issues and risks to the IT Executive, through the Head of IT where appropriate, promptly and transparently. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or national diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field. Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Google Associate Cloud Engineer required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Google Professional Cloud Architect advantageous. Experience Essential Minimum 5–7 ye

- **Id**: 3790798
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kaelo-cloud-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T11:28:11Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-27T11:28:11Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4681
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2437116
- **Name**: Kaelo
- **Domain**: kaelo.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kaelo-co-za>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bicep** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Hyper-V** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T06:23:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 85
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.848
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:9, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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