Infrastructure Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer (Expert) in Pretoria to design, build and operate secure, highly available and scalable platforms. You will work hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, security, automation and observability in a global tech environment.

This role focuses on turning infrastructure challenges into automated, reliable solutions within a major Zero Trust and cloud transformation initiative, offering a dynamic, fast-paced team and modern

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience (typically 6+ years) in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering or DevOps roles with strong AWS experience.
• Proven track record of designing and operating secure, scalable, highly available cloud platforms, with demonstrable experience in networking, containers, security and automation.
• Strong systems thinking, risk management and problem-solving skills; take ownership, drive topics in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, highly available and scalable cloud platforms.
• Hands-on engineering work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, security, automation and observability.
• Collaborate in a global technology environment on a Zero Trust and cloud transformation initiative.

Skills

AWS

Networking

DNS Route53

VPC & Subnets

ALB & NLB

S3 & RDS

EC2 & EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

IAM & RBAC

Oauth2 & IdP

Secrets management

Terraform

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

IaC testing & security

Checkov & tfsec

Grafana & Prometheus

CloudWatch & Insight

Zero Trust

APIs integration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Checkov

tfsec

Grafana

Prometheus

LOKI

CloudWatch

Application Insights

Job description

Pretoria, South Africa | Posted on 14/09/2026

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer (Expert) who knows that great applications are only as good as the infrastructure underneath them.

You’ll be joining a global technology environment working on a major Zero Trust and cloud transformation initiative, helping design, build and operate secure, highly available and scalable platforms.

This is a hands‑on engineering role. You’ll be working with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, security, automation and observability, while solving complex problems that don’t always come with a ready‑made answer.

If you enjoy turning infrastructure challenges into automated, secure and reliable solutions, this could be your next big challenge.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud platform as the primary cloud provider.
  
• Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals including DNS (ROUTE53), VPC & Subnets, load balancers (ALB & NLB).
  
• Expertise with storage (S3, RDS DB's) and compute services (EC2, EC6 & EKS) in public cloud environments.
  
• Proficient with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for platform deployments.
  
• Strong competence in security controls: IAM, RBAC (Oauth2, IdP), secrets management and security frameworks.
  
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code and automation experience using Terraform and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions & workflows).
  
• Infrastructure testing and security: experience building automated tests for IaC (unit tests, plan/apply validations), IaC security scanning (e.g., checkov, tfsec) and secure deployment pipelines.
  
• Experience implementing and operating monitoring and observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus, LOKI, CloudWatch Logs & Application Insights).
  
• Skilled in designing secure, highly available and scalable platform architectures.
  
• Comfortable building, consuming and integrating interfaces and APIs across infrastructure and platform components.
  

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:

• Experience or familiarity with Java and Python for automation and platform tooling.
  
• Knowledge of a database query language.
  
• Exposure to message‑based platforms such as Kafka.
  
• Experience with enterprise systems infrastructure such as SAP.
  
• Understanding of secret and certificate lifecycle management at scale.
  
• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization strategies.
  
• Experience with high‑availability design patterns, disaster recovery and backup strategies.
  
• Knowledge on identity and access governance or Zero Trust platform integrations.
  
• Experience with CI/CD security scanning (GHAS, IaC scanning) and vulnerability management.
  
• Familiarity with serverless platforms (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) for event‑driven workloads.
  
• Experience with ATC Confluence & Jira in a agile working environment.
  

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive hands‑on experience (typically 6+ years) in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering or DevOps roles with strong AWS experience.
  
• Proven track record of designing and operating secure, scalable, highly available cloud platforms, with demonstrable experience in networking, containers, security and automation.
  
• Strong systems thinking, risk management and problem‑solving skills; Have a curious solution‑minded, takes ownership, drives topics.
  
• Cutting edge global IT system landscape and processes
  
• Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12‑month period
  
• High Work-Life balance
  
• Remote / On‑site work location flexibility
  
• Highly motivating, energetic, and fast‑paced working environment
  
• Modern, state‑of‑the‑art offices
  
• Dynamic Global Team collaboration
  
• Application of the Agile Working Model Methodology