AWS Cloud Platform Engineer - DevOps & Automation

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Johannesburg, South Africa seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to help lead and evolve a production AWS platform. You will design, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud environments, while collaborating with software teams to ensure reliable software delivery.

The role focuses on Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps & CI/CD, and Automation & Software Engineering, with a strong emphasis on security, high availability, and on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering with strong production AWS experience.
• Experience designing resilient cloud platforms at scale.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with resilience and DR.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles; manage encryption and keys.
• Support production environments, participate in on-call, drive RCAs and improve reliability.
• Mentor engineers, review code, and lead modernisation initiatives.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

Automation

Security

Automation tooling

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

KMS

Secrets Manager

RDS

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Johannesburg, South Africa seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to help lead and evolve a production AWS platform. You will design, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud environments, while collaborating with software teams to ensure reliable software delivery.

The role focuses on Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps & CI/CD, and Automation & Software Engineering, with a strong emphasis on security, high availability, and on-call readiness.