Cloud Engineer

Overview

Electrum is a next-generation Payment Software Technology company. Since 2012, we have delivered trusted, enterprise-grade, cloud-native software to optimize financial transaction processing. We enable clients to deliver services to millions of South Africans daily. We are grounded in impact—designing solutions that matter, acting with urgency, and continuously learning as we scale. We believe in creating together—working with clients and teams to build meaningful, lasting solutions. We prioritise making it safe—open communication, smart risk-taking, and trust so that creativity and alignment thrive—and empowering strong teams by hiring brilliant people and holding each other to high standards with empathy and kindness.

When you join Electrum, you’ll get to be part of the journey from idea to product launch, grow your skills through training and hands-on learning, receive mentorship from industry leaders, work in a dynamic, innovative environment, tackle real-world customer challenges, and explore opportunities to advance your career in payments technology and cloud delivery.

The Role

As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll be responsible for provisioning and maintaining Electrum’s production cloud systems. You will work with Engineering to ensure production requirements are met and that monitoring and alerting feedback loops for critical infrastructure are continuously improved. You’ll help improve incident response handling and may be involved in project management, vendor engagements, and customer implementations of new software products or applications. You’ll have access to training and education allowances to further your skill set and gain deep knowledge of payments technology and cloud capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems
• Managing and administering Linux environments
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and cloud security solutions
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements
• Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of operational processes
• Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring and alerting
• Updating knowledge by tracking emerging practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities and professional bodies

Requirements

Benefits

Career & Culture

Practical Perks

Seniority level : Mid-Senior level

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : IT Services and IT Consulting

Industries : IT Services and IT Consulting

Note : This description omits boilerplate phrasing and repetitive postings and focuses on the core responsibilities, requirements, and benefits of the Cloud Engineer role at Electrum.

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