The cloud systems engineer is an architect, a designer, a manager, a planner, a technical support expert and an infrastructure developer. They are the carrier of many hats, the maker of marvellous solutions and the solver of a multitude of cloud technology problems. Those who undertake the cloud systems engineer role are asked to have more than just an understanding of IT and cloud; they have to be passionate about cloud, committed to continuous professional development, and curious about how they can deliver on the tenets of performance and operational efficiency.

“This role asks that someone be involved in end-to-end platform architecture and automation around the concerns of development, security and operations in a cloud environment,” says Ignatious Nkwinika, solutions architect and co-founder of InvestSure. “They need to be capable of architecting AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, private cloud components, infrastructure-as-code, Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines while keeping performance, operational efficiency and security in mind.”