Cape Town - Western Cape
ENVIRONMENT:
An exciting B2B tech company at the forefront of innovation in South Africa, is currently seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to joint their team based in Cape Town. As the AWS Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for provisioning and maintaining the companys most mission critical cloud-based production systems. This will involve working closely with Engineering teams to ensure that the technical requirements for moving projects into production are met, as well as ensuring monitoring and alerting feedback loops of critical infrastructure is constantly improved. The successful applicant must have an Associate / bachelors degree in information technology, Systems Engineering, IT Engineering and AWS certifications is required (SysOps Administrator is preferred).
DUTIES:
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems.
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
- Managing and administrating Linux environments.
- Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack.
- Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
- Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
- Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
- Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
- Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
- Updating job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications and participating in professional organisations.
- Leading and growing a Cloud Engineering team.
- 2+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services.
- 5+ years experience in Infrastructure, Software Development and DevOps.
- 3+ years experience with Linux operating systems.
- Associate / Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, IT Engineering.
- AWS certifications required (SysOps Administrator is preferred)
- Experience in Java or a similar object-oriented programming language is beneficial.
- Experience in financial services or banking organisations.
- Experience working in a team lead role.
- Experience in engineering data pipelines such as Apache Kafka.
- Experience with ELK or similar on Public Cloud Platforms.
- Experience developing and supporting infrastructure and Cloud capabilities for container-orchestration architectures.
- Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent.
- Experience with configuration of VPN and firewall management.
- Experience with authentication and authorization technologies and protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
