Cloud Solutions Specialist – Orange Botswana

Cloud Solutions Specialist

To design, deploy, and support secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud solutions while ensuring reliable end-to-end operation of the cloud platform.

The main duties include but are not limited to:

• Ensure the maintenance and operation of cloud management platforms and associated infrastructure and sub systems
• Provide Level 1/2 technical support for cloud platform issues.
• Ensure 24/7 availability and stability on the cloud platform and its sub systems
• Architect secure, scalable, and highly available customer cloud solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical cloud solution designs.
• Develop customer solution design documents (HLDs and LLDs).
• Present and defend technical architectures to customers.
• Provision cloud resources (compute, storage, networking, security).
• Implement secure hybrid connectivity (VPN, MPLS).
• Implement Identity & Access Management (IAM) policies and RBAC.
• Configure and manage virtual networks (VPC, subnets, routing, etc).
• Deploy and manage virtual datacenters (VDCs) (virtual machines, IAC and containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Perform platform monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies.
• Apply security hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Support compliance requirements (ISO 27001, data protection regulations, etc).
• Optimize customer environments for cost efficiency.
• Maintain technical documentation and configuration records.
• Collaborate with sales teams during pre-sales engagements.
• Participate in platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Conduct proof of concepts (POCs) for new cloud services.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud standards and governance frameworks.
• Contribute to weekly incidents/tickets review with vendors or 3rd party support
• Inform and advice SMC and management on issues related to systems operations.
• Contribute to QoS reports through coordination with Service Management Center.

Skills:

• Good analytical skills
• Innovative
• Customer centric
• Hands on experience and knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, HCS)
• Good knowledge of compute, storage, hypervisors, networking, IAM, firewalls, load balancers, backup and DR
• Good knowledge of Windows/Unix/Linux Operating Systems
• Experience in telecom or enterprise datacentre environments.
• Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Ownership and accountability
• Autonomy/Self Driven
• Collaboration

Qualifications and Experience:

• Masters in Computer Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent
• Certifications will be an added advantage
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect  – Associate
• Microsoft Azure – Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect
• Google Cloud – Associate Cloud Engineer
• Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA) – Cloud Computing
• 2 years experience in an IT and Cloud environment with emphasis on architecting and supporting cloud deployments

Published Date:  21 April 2026

Closing Date: 05 May 2026

Only selected candidates will be contacted for interview