Cloud Solutions Architect

About

Description

MiWay is a direct financial services company. We are passionate about service excellence, convenience and offering our clients superior value products. Our Vision is to be a world-class direct financial services business that offers a complete array of services under one convenient umbrella – all managed online.We are positive that with the right people on board, we will continue to grow and give our clients the freedom to do things their way – free from worry and most importantly at peace with all the “what-ifs” of the world. Company values that every employee subscribes to are: Energy, Freedom, Accountability and Attitude. The ideal candidate is one who has the courage to be bold and subscribes to MiWay’s core values! Do you have a positive attitude, love a challenge, treat your colleagues with respect and look for solutions, not problems? If yes, then MiWay is the place for you!

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for net-new and modernization initiatives across AWS and Azure (multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge patterns)
• Produce HLDs/LLDs, reference architectures, sequence diagrams, and decision records
• Select cloud-native services vs
• Containers vs
• Serverless vs
• Kubernetes based on workload fit, cost, performance, resilience, and compliance
• Design for multi-account/subscription patterns (landing zones, networking, IAM/Entra ID, governance, policies)
• Lead hands-on build and migration: infrastructure-as-code, pipelines, landing zones, networking, security controls, observability
• Container and serverless delivery: EKS/AKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, Azure Functions, event-driven architectures
• Disaster Recovery and Redundancy Plans
• Embed security-by-design
• Implement guardrails: AWS Control Tower / Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
• Collaborate with Security/Compliance on CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, POPIA
• Architect and implement monitoring, logging, tracing, SLO/SLA, alerting, runbooks, autoscaling, backup/DR, and testing
• Run architecture workshops and PoCs
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring
• Document solution decisions and present to forums
• Cost review and optimization for cloud workloads

Qualifications

• Grade 12 Senior Certificate
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information systems or equivalent
• AWS: Solutions Architect – Professional
• Azure: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Application instructions:

• Apply Urgently!