AWS Cloud Platform Engineer — DevOps, Security & Automation

DVT; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

DVT is a South Africa-based software engineering and cloud platform company seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, security, and reliability of AWS cloud platforms. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enable secure, scalable software delivery and drive continuous improvement across cloud environments.

The role focuses on infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, IAM and encryption controls, incident response, disaster recovery, and platform

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong AWS experience in enterprise, startup, or scale-up environments.
• Experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure with multiple services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure across environments.
• Develop and manage IaC using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Establish and promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Implement secure cloud solutions aligned with AWS security standards.
• Manage IAM, encryption, key management, secrets and security remediation.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Support disaster recovery planning and platform resilience.
• Develop automation tools, scripts, and operational utilities.
• Review infrastructure and code and contribute to modernization.
• Mentor engineering teams on AWS, cloud engineering and DevOps.

Skills

AWS Cloud

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud security

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

IAM & security

SRE / reliability

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

ArgoCD

AWS ECR

Nexus / Snyk

Job description

DVT is a South Africa-based software engineering and cloud platform company seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, security, and reliability of AWS cloud platforms. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enable secure, scalable software delivery and drive continuous improvement across cloud environments.

The role focuses on infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, IAM and encryption controls, incident response, disaster recovery, and platform