Infrastructure Engineer Data AWS

60 Degrees

Job Location:

Cape Town - South Africa

Yearly Salary: ZAR 800000 - 1080000

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU

A leading global product scaleup is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer (AWS Data Scale)to take ownership of production systems powering massive dataheavy platforms across multiple regions.

This is not a support role. Youll architect optimise and scale infrastructure where uptime performance and smart design decisions truly matter. If you care about reliability clean automation and systems that handle largescale datasets this is where your work makes an impact.

Youll collaborate with highcalibre engineers influence longterm infrastructure design and work in close proximity to the data itself not just abstraction layers.

WHAT YOU WILL BE BUILDING

Production infrastructure supporting global dataheavy platforms
Highvolume relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) optimised for scale and performance
Tooling for monitoring automation and recovery
InfrastructureasCode (Terraform) to ensure consistency and reduce drift
Distributed systems and APIs designed for resilience and reliability
Longterm system architecture that balances performance scalability and maintainability

OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE

4 years in infrastructure backend or platform engineering
Strong AWS cloud experience
Proven track record managing databases at scale (Postgres/MySQL)
Solid system design and architecture skills
InfrastructureasCode (Terraform or similar)
Backend coding experience (Python or similar)
Bonus: Reliability and performance engineering focus

YOUR REWARD

Competitive salary: R80000 R100000 per month (aligned to expertise)
Hybrid work model: Cape Town HQ with global reach
Ownership of infrastructure performance reliability and scalability
A lean productled engineering environment where your decisions shape uptime and scale

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Job DescriptionTHE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOUA leading global product scaleup is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer (AWS Data Scale)to take ownership of production systems powering massive dataheavy platforms across multiple regions.This is not a support role. Youll architect optimise and scale i...