AWS Platform Engineering Lead — Hands-On & Delivery

DataTech Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,523,000 - 1,825,000; Full time

Job summary

DataTech Recruitment is hiring an AWS DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead in Johannesburg. You’ll be hands-on technically while steering the AWS DevOps and platform engineering capability, delivering across migrations, modernisation projects and managed services.

The role requires leading and developing the DevOps team, owning delivery standards, mentoring engineers, and ensuring secure, scalable AWS architectures with well‑architected, policy-driven practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, cloud or DevOps.
• 4+ years hands-on AWS experience.
• 2+ years leading or managing engineers.
• Proven experience hiring, mentoring and work allocation.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (or able to achieve within 6 months).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the DevOps engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management and day-to-day work allocation.
• Mentor engineers through technical reviews and pairing.
• Own technical delivery of DevOps workstreams across customer projects.
• Design secure, scalable AWS architectures and well‑architected frameworks.
• Define IaC and CI/CD standards across projects and lead Terraform module design.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

EKS

Docker

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Linux

Python

Bash

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Security

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

DataTech Recruitment is hiring an AWS DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead in Johannesburg. You’ll be hands-on technically while steering the AWS DevOps and platform engineering capability, delivering across migrations, modernisation projects and managed services.

The role requires leading and developing the DevOps team, owning delivery standards, mentoring engineers, and ensuring secure, scalable AWS architectures with well‑architected, policy-driven practices.