“Are you keen to optimize resource allocation, driving utilization, and enabling project success across our professional services teams?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
We are on the lookout for a proactive and detail-oriented Resourcing Manager to support our project delivery functions. This role is pivotal in ensuring the right resources are assigned to the right projects at the right time.
You will work closely with Project Managers, Delivery teams, and third-party vendors to manage resource allocation, maintain system hygiene, and provide critical reporting to leadership.
What You’ll Do:
Resource Management
- Liaise with Project Managers, Practice Leads, and key business stakeholders to understand and forecast resource requirements.
- Allocate and book resources within resource management tools based on project needs and availability.
- Communicate resource assignments and changes back to requestors in a timely manner.
- Maintain up-to-date records of resource schedules and availability.
- Work to achieve expected utilisation targets for managed resources.
- Ensure all Practice area and business commitments are factored into the resourcing planning (including training, internal projects, and leave requests).
- Serves as the first line contact for all resourcing issues within the professional services team.
- Conduct required ceremonies, such as sprint loading, daily stand ups, and sprint retrospectives.
Tooling Coordination
- Ensure resource management tools and systems are kept clean, organized, and up to date.
- Monitor and maintain tooling hygiene, including user access, project tagging, and data consistency.
Reporting & Analytics
- Generate and distribute regular reports on:
- Timesheet submissions and compliance
- Resource utilization and availability
- Forecast vs. actual resource usage
- Provide insights and recommendations to improve resource efficiency.
- Maintain skills matrix in delivery areas.
Vendor & Third-Party Interaction
- Engage with third-party vendors to source additional resources as needed.
- Obtain and manage quotations for external resources.
- Maintain an up-to-date database of vendor rates and terms.
Stakeholder Communication
- Act as the central point of contact for all resource coordination queries.
- Provide regular updates and reports to the Head of Consulting.
- Flag utilisation gaps with delivery teams.
- Support internal reviews related to resource planning and utilization.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience in resource coordination, project support, or operations within a Professional Services environment.
- Strong understanding of Azure DevOps.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and resource management platforms.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Group Life Cover /Disability Income Cover/ Trauma Insurance Cover (Injury / Disability)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Fund Contribution
- Medical Insurance Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Endless Growth Opportunities: We provide ample opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and advancement.
- Culture of Excellence: We foster a high-performance culture that recognizes and rewards exceptional talent.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.
“Ready to design scalable data pipelines and engineer intelligent systems that power high-impact digital solutions from the ground up?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
We’re on the lookout for a Data Engineer, to join our Business Systems team in Cape Town. Within the Business Systems Team the Data Engineer’s role is to tackle creative, complex, and technically challenging projects for a range of business systems and stakeholders.
Working closely with other developers, you will assist in the design and delivery of fully functional modules and application enhancements in an agile environment. You should have a deep knowledge of implementing scalable data solutions as the role will concentrate on ensuring Cloud Direct’s data is ready for analytics and AI.
As Cloud Direct moves towards its goal of being an AI frontier firm, experience in AI solutions will also be beneficial to the role. This is very much a ‘hands-on’ role where you will be self-managing your workload to have the biggest impact on the team’s success, so you should have a passion for development, an eye for detail, and an intrinsic motivation to succeed
What You’ll Do:
- Act as the team’s go-to expert for data engineering and analytics solutions.
- Work with product and business stakeholders to translate reporting and AI integration requirements into technical solutions.
- Develop and manage data warehouse solutions, ensuring data is cleansed, normalised, and structured for analytics and AI.
- Write high-quality, well-documented T-SQL, KQL, and Python code for transformations, validations, and orchestration.
- Collaborate with developers to enable data access for machine learning, LLMs, and other intelligent systems.
- Support reporting and dashboarding needs via Power BI, including data modelling and DAX.
- Work closely with developers and analysts to review and implement designs.
- Complete full functional testing of new data solution releases.
- Ensure data systems are reliable, secure and meet compliance requirements.
- Manage development backlog & assigned tasks within Azure DevOps.
- Weekly progress reporting against targets, projects, and development backlog.
- Work directly on customer projects if required.
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
- Strong experience with Azure-based data services, particularly Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Power BI, and Data Lakes
- Proficient in T-SQL, KQL, and Python for data processing and scripting
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or Apache Spark technologies
- Solid understanding of data warehousing principles, dimensional modelling, and ETL/ELT processes
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Experience working in Agile teams and collaborating across disciplines
- AGILE Development principles and practices
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Group Life Cover /Disability Income Cover/ Trauma Insurance Cover (Injury / Disability)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Fund Contribution
- Medical Insurance Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Endless Growth Opportunities: We provide ample opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and advancement.
- Culture of Excellence: We foster a high-performance culture that recognizes and rewards exceptional talent.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.
“Ready to build end-to-end applications that focuses on performance, usability, and delivering great customer experiences?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
We’re looking for a full-time Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on user experience (UX) and front-end design excellence to join our Business Systems Team. This role centers on developing and enhancing Cloud Direct’s customer portal, requiring solid expertise in C# .NET and React.js.
You’ll work on creative and technically challenging projects that support a range of business systems and stakeholders, collaborating closely with other developers in an agile environment to deliver fully functional modules and application improvements.
A genuine interest in user experience is essential, as your work will directly impact how customers interact with and perceive the value of our portal. This is a hands-on position where you’ll manage your own workload and contribute meaningfully to the team’s success. We’re looking for someone with a passion for development, a sharp eye for detail, and the creativity to bring ideas to life. As Cloud Direct continues its journey toward becoming a leader in AI-driven solutions, any experience or interest in AI technologies will be a valuable asset.
What You’ll Do:
- Produce high performing, well documented code.
- Assist with converting user requirements to innovative technical solution designs.
- Assist with key decisions on UI/UX design.
- Work closely with other developers to review and implement designs.
- Develop comprehensive system modules or enhancements.
- Complete full functional testing of new software releases.
- Manage development backlog & assigned tasks within Azure DevOps.
- Weekly progress reporting against targets, projects, and development backlog.
- Ensure systems’ integrity/security/availability.
- Work directly on customer projects if required.
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong understanding of Web Application development and SPAs
- UI/UX design and development using React.js
- C# (.NET 6+)
- SQL & NoSQL Databases (preference for MSSQL/Cosmos)
- RESTful API’s
- Microsoft Azure for deploying & hosting applications (AppService/Functions, API Management, Front Door, Storage, Application Insights/Log Analytics/Kusto, ARM/BICEP etc.)
- Azure DevOps (Repositories, Deployment Pipelines, CICD, Workload planning)
- Git or other version control software
- Secure development practices including DevSecOps
- AGILE Development principles and practices
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Group Life Cover /Disability Income Cover/ Trauma Insurance Cover (Injury / Disability)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Fund Contribution
- Medical Insurance Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Endless Growth Opportunities: We provide ample opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and advancement.
- Culture of Excellence: We foster a high-performance culture that recognizes and rewards exceptional talent.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.
“Ready to design, secure, and automate cutting-edge Azure infrastructure solutions that power innovation?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will take the lead in building secure, scalable, and fully automated Azure environments. As a key player in our cloud engineering team, you’ll dive into cutting-edge Azure projects, automate everything that moves, and work closely with some of the brightest minds in the cloud space.
If you thrive on innovation, love solving complex infrastructure challenges, and live by the motto “build it better and smarter,” this is the role for you.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive monitoring and observability initiatives to ensure system reliability.
- Build, maintain, and enforce cloud security, compliance, and best practices.
- Develop automated infrastructure provisioning tools using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain containerization and Kubernetes orchestration.
- Act as an SME for Azure security models (RBAC, Key Vault, Managed Identities).
- Develop scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions while mitigating risks.
- Support major incidents and troubleshooting, ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Mentor peers in DevOps and automation methodologies, embedding best practices.
- Drive Cloud Direct’s Azure Cloud Roadmap and contribute to service enhancements.
What We’re Looking For:
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, YAML, CI/CD Pipelines.
- Proficiency in containerization & Kubernetes orchestration.
- Advanced scripting with Azure CLI, Bash, PowerShell.
- Hands-on experience with Azure security models and cost optimization.
- Experience in hybrid cloud solutions using Azure ARC.
- Understanding of cloud-native architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, APIs).
- Passion for continuous learning and keeping up with the latest Azure innovations.
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Group Life Cover /Disability Income Cover/ Trauma Insurance Cover (Injury / Disability)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Fund Contribution
- Medical Insurance Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Endless Growth Opportunities: We provide ample opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and advancement.
- Culture of Excellence: We foster a high-performance culture that recognizes and rewards exceptional talent.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.
“Are you ready to work on cutting-edge enterprise data platforms while collaborating with top-tier teams?”
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with a solid technical background in Cloud & Data managed services, a passion for learning and self-development, and a proactive approach to problem-solving to join our dynamic team.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing our customers’ cloud-based enterprise data platforms, working closely with customers, support teams, and subject matter experts to ensure the efficient, reliable, and secure operation of high-quality data platforms.
What You’ll Do:
- Maintain efficient data pipelines from diverse internal and external sources, ensuring high quality and governance.
- Maintain and optimize ingestion, transformation, translation, cleansing, and publishing processes.
- Optimize performance by monitoring and enhancing pipeline scalability, cost, and efficiency.
- Utilize observability tools to proactively identify issues.
- Manage the transition and onboarding of in-house or customer-developed data platforms into managed services.
- Collaborate with teams both internally and externally to ensure seamless onboarding, operation, and enhancements to deployed data solutions.
- Advise and guide customers on data management, security, and data governance.
- Demonstrate a passion for learning and innovation in data, stay updated with big data trends and best practices to continuously innovate.
- Play an active role in the ongoing development of Cloud Direct’s Data Managed Services portfolio.
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years as a Data Engineer or similar role.
- Experience with Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse, Azure Event Hubs, Fabric & Purview.
- Proficient in implementing and maintaining data pipelines with Azure Data Factory.
- In-depth knowledge of Data Lake/Medallion Architecture.
- Skilled in data modelling and ETL.
- Supporting a Lamba architecture including both batch and real-time data streams.
- Processing structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
- Knowledge of the Azure security model, including RBAC, Key Vault and Managed Identities.
- Understanding of Cost management and optimisation of Azure resources.
- Basic networking, including integration runtime, data gateway, and VNet data gateway.
- Knowledge of data partitioning and optimisation techniques.
- Experience in source code control using Azure DevOps and Git.
- Interpreting telemetry and metrics using tools such as Azure Monitor and Azure Advisor.
What We Offer:
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Group Life Cover /Disability Income Cover/ Trauma Insurance Cover (Injury / Disability)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Fund Contribution
- Medical Insurance Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Endless Growth Opportunities: We provide ample opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and advancement.
- Culture of Excellence: We foster a high-performance culture that recognizes and rewards exceptional talent.
At Cloud Direct, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply.