Intermediate AWS DevOps Consultant

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

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 26/10/2026

Help lead the design, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to enable secure, reliable software delivery while maintaining highly available cloud environments.

Focus: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (40%) · DevOps & CI/CD (30%) · Automation & Software Engineering (30%)

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with strong resilience and disaster recovery.
  
• 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, KMS, Secrets Manager, and remediate security findings.
  
• Support production environments, participate in on-call, drive root-cause analysis, and improve platform reliability.
  
• Mentor engineers, review infrastructure and application code, and lead modernisation initiatives.
  

What You Bring

Preferred: 5+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with strong production AWS experience at scale (enterprise, startup, or scale-up).

Alternative path considered: 6+ years with significant production ownership, deep AWS operational experience, strong automation capability, and rapid technical progression (startup/scale-up experience a plus).

Core AWS skills: ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Organizations, cross-account architectures, and cloud security governance.

Also required:

• Infrastructure as Code and automation
  
• Security fundamentals (encryption, IAM, least privilege, Zero Trust, Security by Design)
  
• Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  
• Comfortable reading, understanding, and modifying application code; developing automation tooling and scripts
  

Nice to have: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, SonarQube, Snyk, Blue/Green deployments, and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude).

What Makes You Stand Out

• Startup or scale-up experience
  
• Ownership of production AWS platforms
  
• Experience building cloud platforms from the ground up
  
• Cloud transformation or modernisation track record
  
• Strong automation background
  

Relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.