Senior AWS Network Engineer – Onsite Cape Town

Optimal Growth Technologies; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimal Growth Technologies in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Network Engineer with extensive AWS expertise to design, implement and optimize enterprise networking across on-premises and cloud environments.

This hands-on role requires strong troubleshooting, collaboration with cloud, security and infrastructure teams, and the ability to maintain documentation and diagrams. Onsite position with a 12-month contract.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• Expertise in networking technologies and infrastructure design.
• Strong practical experience with AWS networking.
• Advanced routing and switching knowledge: BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VLANs.
• Experience with enterprise firewalls, VPNs and network security.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex network issues.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work independently and with technical teams.
• Must be available to work onsite in Cape Town.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available enterprise network infrastructure.
• Configure, manage and troubleshoot routers, switches, firewalls and network connectivity.
• Support AWS cloud networking and integration with on-premises infrastructure.
• Manage LAN, WAN, VPN and hybrid network environments.
• Troubleshoot complex network performance, routing, connectivity and security issues.
• Support network infrastructure upgrades, migrations and optimisation initiatives.
• Implement network security, redundancy and disaster recovery best practices.
• Monitor network performance, availability and capacity.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security and technical teams to deliver network solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation, network diagrams and configuration standards.
• Provide advanced Level 3 technical support and incident resolution.

Skills

Enterprise networking

AWS networking

Routing & switching

Troubleshooting

Communication

Independent work

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS VPC

Transit Gateway

Direct Connect

Site-to-Site VPN

Job description

Optimal Growth Technologies in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Network Engineer with extensive AWS expertise to design, implement and optimize enterprise networking across on-premises and cloud environments.

This hands-on role requires strong troubleshooting, collaboration with cloud, security and infrastructure teams, and the ability to maintain documentation and diagrams. Onsite position with a 12-month contract.