AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- R5,000-6,000 per month
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer (Fintech exposure highly advantageous)
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Creation of modular CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions)
- Docker and Kubernetes (Helm experience NB)
- Managing incidents and monitoring uptime with tools like PagerDuty
- Managing Linux servers
- Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, OpenSearch)
- Scripting with Bash or Python
- Secure networking principles and security-first architecture
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Practical, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to write concise technical documentation
- Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
- Design and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform
- Document architecture decisions and operational processes clearly and accessibly
- Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and regulatory standards
- Lead incident response efforts and continuously improve reliability practices
- Maintain and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across environments
- Monitor system health and ensure high uptime with observability best practices
- Partner with engineers to optimise development workflows and release processes
- Challenges you'll need to solve:
- Ensuring zero-downtime deployments in a distributed microservice architecture
- Scaling infrastructure cost-effectively as transaction volumes increase
- Creating developer tooling that supports velocity without sacrificing reliability
- Balancing security, compliance, and speed in a complex payments environment
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