Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Lead - Salesforce & CI/CD

DVT; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

DVT is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Consultant to own AWS architecture, environment setup, and delivery for a Fast Track to the Future programme. You will lead the technical team through Salesforce-AWS integrations, CI/CD transformation, and observability across AWS, Salesforce, and Google Cloud.

Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in AWS/DevOps with proof of end-to-end ownership, trunk-based development, and experience in complex

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on AWS cloud and DevOps engineering experience, including proven team leadership at a senior or lead level.
• Proven experience leading cloud or DevOps teams and providing technical direction across complex AWS delivery.
• Demonstrable end-to-end ownership of AWS environment setup and configuration, including making architecture and implementation decisions personally.
• Strong evidence of personally configuring and troubleshooting AWS environments, not just following others' directions.
• Proven experience building integrations on AWS with APIs (API Gateway, Lambda), EventBridge and S3 batch flows.
• Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including trunk-based development and deployment/promotion patterns.
• Hands-on observability experience: tracing, dashboards and alerting with CloudWatch.
• Able to propose solution architecture and explain/justify it to engineers and business stakeholders.
• Motivated and self-driven, with strong communication skills.
• Advantageous: Google Cloud experience (BigQuery/IAM), Salesforce integration experience, Snyk in CI/CD, OpenTelemetry/AWS X-Ray, IaC tools, AWS certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build integrations between Salesforce and existing AWS‑hosted systems using APIs, EventBridge events and S3 batch flows.
• Lead and mentor engineers; own AWS solution architecture and delivery quality.
• Explain and justify designs to cloud engineers and to CRM and business stakeholders.
• Set up Google Cloud (Analytics/BigQuery) infrastructure for data teams.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

DevOps leadership

APIs (API Gateway)

EventBridge

S3 batch processing

GitLab CI/CD

Observability (CloudWatch)

Communication skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

DVT is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Consultant to own AWS architecture, environment setup, and delivery for a Fast Track to the Future programme. You will lead the technical team through Salesforce-AWS integrations, CI/CD transformation, and observability across AWS, Salesforce, and Google Cloud.

Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in AWS/DevOps with proof of end-to-end ownership, trunk-based development, and experience in complex