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Cloud Engineer
Jubilee Insurance
Nairobi, Kenya
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 3 weeks from now
Job description
This position offers a great opportunity for career growth.
Job Ref. No: JLIL 378
Role Purpose
The Cloud Engineer will design, build, operate, secure, and optimise scalable cloud infrastructure across public cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, security, resilience, and cost efficiency. The role holder will work closely with DevOps, Security, and Application teams to support production workloads, automate infrastructure deployment, and maintain reliable cloud environments aligned to business and regulatory requirements
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy
- Design and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure aligned to business and technology strategy.
- Develop and implement cloud architecture standards, security baselines, and operational best practices.
- Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve deployment speed, consistency, and reliability.
- Optimise cloud spend through effective resource planning, cost governance, and FinOps practices.
- Provide input into cloud adoption roadmaps, migration strategies, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Stay current with evolving cloud technologies and recommend improvements to enhance performance, resilience, and security.
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, OCI, and/or GCP environments.
- Build and maintain IaaS and PaaS services including compute, storage, networking, and databases
- Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies aligned to defined RTO/RPO requirements.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
- Administer Linux and Windows servers in cloud environments, including patching, performance tuning, and hardening.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using cloud-native tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OCI Monitoring).
- Enforce cloud security best practices including IAM, RBAC, encryption, vulnerability management, and network segmentation.
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Support cloud migrations from on-premises or other environments to target cloud platforms.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks.
- Ensure adherence to corporate IT policies, standards, and security frameworks.
- Ensure compliance with...