0226 Back-End Developer (Advanced)

Imizizi; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Imizizi in Pretoria is seeking a seasoned cloud engineer to develop and operate production-ready business applications in a 24/7 AWS environment. You will liaise with customers, team members and external vendors, and monitor applications using AWS CloudWatch while applying cloud-security patterns.

You will design solutions aligned with quality and delivery requirements, identify risks, ensure compliance with testing standards, document systems per ISO, and mentor teammates within an Agile

Qualifications

• Relevant IT degree or equivalent experience.
• Cloud certifications (Developer Associate minimum, Professional preferred).

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate production ready business applications (24/7 Support).
• Liaise with customer, team members and external vendors.
• Monitoring and operation of applications within AWS CloudWatch.
• Applying cloud-security patterns and concepts to the solutions and deployments.
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements.
• Identify risks / impediments, proactively resolve and/or escape to the relevant parties.
• Comply with Code Compliance & Unit Testing standards and practices.
• Prepare system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Pro-active knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching of members from the same or other teams.
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM)Team Charter

Skills

AWS serverless

CI/CD pipelines

Unit tests

End-to-end tests

SQL/NoSQL

Kubernetes

API Gateway

CloudWatch

Security patterns

AGILE / SCRUM

Automation deployment

GitHub Actions

Education

Relevant IT Degree or equivalent experience

Cloud certifications (Developer Associate minimum, Professional preferred)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• 3+years automated testing experience (unit tests, end-to-end tests)
• 3+ years hands-on AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub actions preferred)
• Experience with Databases both SQL and NoSQL
• Experience with cloud technologies (Amazon AWS is strongly preferred):
• Compute: Kubernetes and Serverless
• API Gateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, etc.
• Virtual networks, including communication with on-premise networks
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (design, configuration and operation)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Automated deployment and configuration of components and systems
• Monitoring and log analytics
• Experience with Databases both Sql and NoSql
• Experience with Design / Architecture Patterns
• Experience in AGILE or SCRUM.
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Experience with Linear and Nonlinear Optimization
• Experience with Design and Evaluation of Efficient Algorithms (Complexity Theory)
• Experience with Performance Testing and Tuning
• Experience with E-mobility
• Java

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and operate production ready business applications (24/7 Support)
• Liaise with customer, team members and external vendors
• Monitoring and operation of applications within AWS CloudWatch.
• Applying cloud-security patterns and concepts to the solutions and deployments
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements.
• Identify risks / impediments, proactively resolve and/or escape to the relevant parties.
• Comply with Code Compliance & Unit Testing standards and practices.
• Prepare system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Pro-active knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching of members from the same or other teams.
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM)Team Charter

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Relevant IT Degree or equivalent experience
• Cloud Certifications (Developer Associate minimum, Professional preferred)