Senior AWS Engineer
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Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Senior AWS Engineer - 6 Month Contract
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement AWS-based infrastructure solutions using best practices.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Monitor troubleshoot and optimize cloud environments for performance and cost-efficiency.
- Ensure security and compliance through proper IAM policies encryption and auditing.
- Collaborate with DevOps development and security teams to support CI/CD pipelines and application deployments.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for cloud-related issues.
- Stay current with AWS services and recommend improvements or new technologies.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 5 years of experience in cloud engineering with a focus on AWS.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM CloudWatch etc.).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python Bash etc.).
- Experience with IaC tools (Terraform CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker ECS EKS) and orchestration.
- Understanding of networking security and cloud architecture principles.
- AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional) are a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins GitLab CI/CD etc.).
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools (Datadog Prometheus ELK stack).
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
