Associate Director (Cloud Platform Architect)
Johannesburg · Full time · Posted 6H AGO
Company Description
About Nagarro
In a changing and evolving world, challenges are ever more unique and complex. Nagarro helps to transform, adapt, and build new ways into the future through a forward-thinking, agile, and caring mindset. Today, we are 18,000+ experts across 37+ countries, forming a Nation of Nagarrians, ready to help our customers succeed.
The nature of IT & digital product engineering has reached an incredible state of velocity and transition. We must adapt and meet it with an agile mindset that isn't afraid to iterate towards the perfect solution. If we only solve today's problems, it's not enough. We must do more. We must courageously embrace the future, with vision and clarity about where technology & business are heading. Thinking breakthroughs gets us there.
Nagarro - https://www.nagarro.com/en
Job Description
Must have Skills : DevOps - Azure (Strong), Cloud Architecture (Strong), DevSecOps
Ideal profile:
- A strong combination of Platform Architect + Cloud Engineer + SRE + Performance Engineer + DevOps Leader, with the ability to lead teams while remaining technically hands-on.
- Lead the Platform Engineering function across Azure Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Performance Engineering, Application Modernization, and Developer Enablement.
- Define and drive the platform architecture, engineering strategy, standards, and technology roadmap for a scalable enterprise platform.
- Provide strong hands-on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, networking, API Management, databases, messaging, and cloud-native services.
- Establish Golden Paths / Paved Roads, reusable platform capabilities, engineering standards, and self-service developer experiences.
- Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and automated deployment practices.
- Establish and drive SRE practices, including SLI/SLO, reliability engineering, incident management, RCA, resilience, and disaster recovery.
- Drive end-to-end performance and production troubleshooting, from application/API through Kubernetes, Azure infrastructure, databases, and external dependencies.
- Establish a comprehensive observability strategy covering metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and proactive performance monitoring.
- Define and enforce security, governance, identity, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance standards across the platform.
- Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and operationally ready.
- Mentor and provide technical direction to engineers across Platform, DevOps, SRE, Performance Engineering, and Application teams.
- Collaborate closely with Architecture, Product, Development, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate delivery.
- Be a hands-on technical leader who can move from architecture and strategy to implementation, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex production issues.
