Cloud-Native Apps Engineer & AI-Driven Platform (AWS)

NTT Ltd.; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a highly skilled Software Applications Development Engineer to design, build, modernize, and optimize cloud-native applications and platforms for enterprise customers. This role combines software engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, AI-driven development, and infrastructure automation to deliver scalable and secure solutions across AWS, Azure and GCP.

The ideal candidate is passionate about cloud technologies and modern application development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering and application development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS cloud experience.
• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with AWS ECS, Fargate, Control Tower, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, REST APIs, React, and TypeScript.
• Experience in cloud migration and modernization projects.
• Experience developing AI-enabled or Generative AI solutions is advantageous.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
• Experience with Linux environments and cloud operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications.
• Build scalable backend services and APIs.
• Develop responsive web applications using React.
• Design microservices-based architectures on container platforms.
• Collaborate with solution architects, cloud engineers, and customers.
• Design, deploy, and manage solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Implement AWS-native services (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3).
• Participate in cloud migration and modernization engagements.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Develop AI-powered solutions using Bedrock or similar.
• Produce high-quality documentation and diagrams.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

React

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Cloud-native architecture

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS ECS

AWS Fargate

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

RDS

DynamoDB

S3

CloudWatch

IAM

HTML5

CSS3

LangGraph

AI/Generative AI

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a highly skilled Software Applications Development Engineer to design, build, modernize, and optimize cloud-native applications and platforms for enterprise customers. This role combines software engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, AI-driven development, and infrastructure automation to deliver scalable and secure solutions across AWS, Azure and GCP.

The ideal candidate is passionate about cloud technologies and modern application development.