AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Dina Gates Recruitment (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks an experienced AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer with a strong background in fintech. The role involves building reliable CI/CD pipelines, managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and ensuring security standards are met. Ideal candidates have over 3 years of experience with AWS and a practical mindset for technical documentation. Strong communication skills are essential as you will articulate decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer, preferably in fintech.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD practices.
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes, with Helm experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and manage secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions and operational processes.

Skills

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions)

Docker

Kubernetes

Incident management

Monitoring tools (e.g., PagerDuty)

Linux servers management

Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus)

Bash or Python scripting

Terraform

Technical documentation

Strong communication skills

Job description

If you are an AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer with at least 3 years of experience, ideally in the fintech space, we would like to reach out to you!

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED :

• 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer (Fintech exposure highly advantageous)
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Creation of modular CI / CD workflows (GitHub Actions)
• Docker and Kubernetes (Helm experience NB)
• Managing incidents and monitoring uptime with tools like PagerDuty
• Managing Linux servers
• Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, OpenSearch)
• Scripting with Bash or Python
• Secure networking principles and security-first architecture
• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Practical, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to write concise technical documentation
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

SCOPE OF WORK :

• Build and maintain reliable CI / CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
• Design and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Document architecture decisions and operational processes clearly and accessibly
• Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and regulatory standards
• Lead incident response efforts and continuously improve reliability practices
• Maintain and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across environments
• Monitor system health and ensure high uptime with observability best practices
• Partner with engineers to optimise development workflows and release processes
• Challenges you’ll need to solve :
• Ensuring zero-downtime deployments in a distributed microservice architecture
• Scaling infrastructure cost-effectively as transaction volumes increase
• Creating developer tooling that supports velocity without sacrificing reliability
• Balancing security, compliance, and speed in a complex payments environment