
AWS Data Engineer – Johannesburg – R530 to R630 per hour
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
AWS Data Engineer - Johannesburg - R530 to R630 per hourPOSITION INFO:An IT South Africa Hub delivering cutting-edge IT solutions to the global Group and specialising in innovative and comprehensive IT services, including Development and Operations for SAP, JAVA, Azure, Cloud, ensure deep integration with compliance, IT methodology, and quality standards have an opening for an AWS Data Engineer.Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Big Data pipelines
- As custodians of data, they ensure data sharing follows information classification policies and need-to-know principles
- Stay updated on the latest data
- Drive innovation by exploring new data engineering approaches
- Mentor, train, and upskill team members
- Degree: Relevant IT, Business, or Engineering degree
- Preferred Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified SysOps Associate
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- AWS Certified
- Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
- Experience using enterprise collaboration tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA)
- Developing technical documentation and artifacts
- Knowledge of data formats (Parquet, AVRO, JSON, XML, CSV)
- Experience with Data Quality Tools (e.g., Great Expectations)
- Developing and working with REST APIs (bonus)
- Terraform Python 3x, SQL (Oracle/PostgreSQL), PySpark, Boto3, ETL, Docker
- Linux / Unix, Big Data, PowerShell
- Understanding of Glue, CloudWatch, SNS, Athena, S3, Kinesis Streams (Kinesis, Kinesis Firehose), Lambda, DynamoDB, tep Functions, Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, Kafka, AWS EMR, Redshift
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