Intermediate AWS DevOps Consultant

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; South Africa; Presencial; ZAR 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps to lead design, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. You’ll work with software teams to enable secure, reliable software delivery and highly available cloud environments.

Focus areas include Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, least-privilege security, encryption, and on-call production support to drive platform reliability.

Formación

• 5+ years in Cloud/DevOps with production AWS experience at scale.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities.
• Experience with security governance and least-privilege access.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, and optimise AWS infrastructure with resilience and DR.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Apply IaC using AWS CDK and CloudFormation; review code and mentor engineers.

Conocimientos

AWS Cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Security by design

On-call

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

KMS/ Secrets Manager

ECS/Lambda

IAM

Descripción del empleo

The Role

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.