Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa, is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a world-class automotive organization driving a Zero Trust transformation. You will help design, deploy and secure scalable cloud infrastructure leveraging AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.

You will build automated pipelines, implement IaC, monitor health with Grafana/Prometheus, and ensure resilient, highly available systems across a global IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience (6+ years).
• Proven ability to design and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms.
• Strong networking, containers, security, and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, optimize and secure cloud platforms.
• Deliver secure, scalable infrastructure for global IT landscape.
• Implement IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

AW S cloud platform

Networking fundamentals

Containers experience

Security controls

IaC & automation

CI/CD tooling

Cloud monitoring

Tools

Route53

VPC

Subnets

ALB/NLB

S3/RDS

EC2/EKS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Checkov/tfsec

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

CloudWatch/Insights

Job description

Pretoria, South Africa | Posted on 13/11/2026

What happens when world-class automotive innovation meets cutting-edge cloud technology?

You get an opportunity to work with a leading global automotive organization, contributing to an international Zero Trust transformation initiative that is reshaping how enterprise infrastructure is secured, connected and managed.

We're looking for an experiencedInfrastructure Engineerwho knows their way around AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud security. Someone who doesn't just keep infrastructure running but knows how to build, automate, optimize and secure platforms for the future.

You'll be helping deliver secure, scalable and highly available infrastructure supporting a global IT landscape.

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.