Specialist Support Engineer

NTT Data; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent IT services company in Cape Town is seeking a highly skilled engineer with strong AWS and DevOps experience. The role involves migrating RDS to a dedicated DB AWS account, optimizing DevOps tools, and ensuring strong security practices. Candidates should have at least 5 years of IT and DevOps experience, alongside relevant tertiary qualifications. This position offers an opportunity to work with advanced technologies in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Matric and a Tertiary Qualifications.
• 5+ Years IT Experience with strong Linux and AWS background.
• 5+ Years DevOps experience including CI/CD and automation.

Responsibilities

• Migrate RDS to a dedicated DB AWS account.
• Dockerize and optimize current DevOps tools.
• Integrate pipelines with Prisma Cloud Checkov and Twistlock.

Education

Tertiary Qualifications

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

BitBucket

Job description

Responsibilities

• RDS to migrate to a dedicated DB AWS account.
• Dockerize optimize current DevOps tools (either on EC2/ECS/EKS)
• Integration of pipelines with Prisma Cloud Checkov and Twistlock
• High level AWS skills (possibly certified)
• Strong security and compliance understanding and ethics (Prisma Cloud/Checkov/Twistlock)
• Strong Scripting (Bash/Python)
• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Salt)

Qualifications and Skills

• Matric and a Tertiary Qualifications
• High Mid-Level to Senior engineer
• 5+ Years IT Experience (with strong Linux and AWS (EKS/RDS) background)
• 5+ Years DevOps experience (CI/CD, pipelines, automation, container orchestration (Jenkins/BitBucket/Docker/Kubernetes))
• High level AWS skills (possibly certified)