Port Elizabeth: Cloud & Identity Manager posted by Performit Personnel

Cloud and Identity Manager

Global Company is seeking an experienced Cloud and Identity Manager to join their team.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

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.

This role leads the evolution of Azure as a self-service, secure, and cost-efficient platform, enabling application teams to rapidly consume cloud resources while maintaining enterprise controls.

Identity services across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Silverfort serve as foundational capabilities that enable secure cloud access, automation, and Zero Trust enforcement.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

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.

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, SC-300).

Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

Experience with Terraform in Azure environments.

Exposure to AWS or GCP (secondary).

Experience supporting cloud platforms in M&A scenarios.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Strong written and verbal communication

Excellent time management and organizational skills

Keen attention to detail

Problem solving

Hard working and dedicated

Comfortable in a fast-paced environment

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITES:

Azure Cloud Platform Management (Primary Focus)

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.

Cloud Financial Management (FinOps)

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

Define and enforce cost allocation models, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback mechanisms.

Monitor Azure consumption and spend, proactively identifying opportunities for: Rightsizing

Reserved Instances / Savings Plans

Storage and data lifecycle optimization

Idle and orphaned resource cleanup

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

Produce regular cloud cost and optimization reports for leadership.

Cloud Automation & Self-Service Enablement

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

Lead development of standardized, reusable Azure blueprints/modules using: Bicep / ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Enable self-service resource provisioning for application teams through approved templates and pipelines.

Establish guardrails to ensure self-service deployments remain secure, compliant, and cost-controlled.

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.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on: Reducing incidents

Improving mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Increasing automation coverage

Ensure backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency patterns are implemented and tested across Azure workloads.

Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.

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.

Support Silverfort-based identity protection, adaptive authentication, and access control enforcement.