Port Elizabeth: Cloud & Identity Manager posted by Performit Personnel

About the Role

Performit Personnel is seeking an experienced Cloud and Identity Manager to join their team. The Manager, Cloud & Identity is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and governance of the organizations Azure cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on cost management (FinOps), automation, and scalable cloud operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations and strategic improvement of enterprise Azure environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Lead Azure platform architecture, including landing zones, networking, shared services, and management group design.
• Establish and enforce Azure governance standards, including RBAC, Azure Policy, tagging, naming conventions, and security baselines.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to enable cloud migrations, refactoring, and modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for Azure platform incidents, driving root cause analysis and preventive improvements.

Requirements

• 810+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering or platform operations.
• 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership role.
• Strong expertise in Azure services, governance, and platform design.
• Proven experience implementing FinOps practices in Azure.
• Experience building automation and self-service cloud platforms.
• Solid knowledge of Active Directory, Entra ID, Conditional Access, and MFA.
• Familiarity with Silverfort or similar identity security platforms.
• Strong automation skills using PowerShell, Bicep/ARM, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities (Alternative phrasing for clarity)

Azure Cloud Platform Management:

Own day-to-day operations and strategic improvement of enterprise Azure environments.

Lead Azure platform architecture and establish governance standards.

Cloud Financial Management (FinOps):

Lead Azure FinOps practices, ensuring cloud spend transparency, accountability, and optimization.

Partner with finance and business stakeholders to forecast cloud costs and align budgets to business demand.

Cloud Automation & Self-Service Enablement:

Drive automation-first cloud operations, reducing manual effort and increasing deployment consistency.

Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices across cloud teams.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence:

Define and manage cloud operational KPIs, including availability, performance, cost efficiency, and deployment success rates.

Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and health dashboards using Azure-native tools.

Identity & Access Management (Supporting Focus):

Oversee enterprise identity services across Active Directory, Entra ID, and hybrid identity.

Ensure stable operation of Conditional Access, MFA, directory synchronization, and identity lifecycle processes.