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Sabenza IT & Recruitment

AWS DevOps Consultant

Sabenza IT & Recruitment City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

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About the role

Lead the design, automation, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform while collaborating with software engineering teams. Manage CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure as code, and ensure high availability and security across cloud environments.

What they look for

AWS DevOps Cloud Infrastructure CI/CD Automation Infrastructure as Code AWS CDK CloudFormation Security Governance PostgreSQL DynamoDB IAM KMS Secrets Manager Zero Trust Platform Engineering

Requirements

Requires extensive experience in cloud engineering and AWS production environments, with a strong background in automation and security principles. Candidates should possess deep knowledge of AWS services and the ability to mentor teams while driving platform modernization.

Full description

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Contract | 12 months | Start: January 2027

Hybrid — Johannesburg

The Role

Lead the design, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to enable secure, reliable software delivery while maintaining highly available cloud environments.

Focus: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (40%) · DevOps & CI/CD (30%) · Automation & Software Engineering (30%)

What You’ll Do

  • Design, implement, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with strong resilience and disaster recovery.
  • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
  • Apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles; manage encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager, and remediate security findings.
  • Support production environments, participate in on-call, drive root-cause analysis, and improve platform reliability.
  • Mentor engineers, review infrastructure and application code, and lead modernisation initiatives.

What You Bring

Preferred: 10+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with strong production AWS experience at scale (enterprise, startup, or scale-up).

Alternative path considered: 6+ years with significant production ownership, deep AWS operational experience, strong automation capability, and rapid technical progression (startup/scale-up experience a plus).

Core AWS skills: ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Organizations, cross-account architectures, and cloud security governance.

Also required:

  • Infrastructure as Code and automation
  • Security fundamentals (encryption, IAM, least privilege, Zero Trust, Security by Design)
  • Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  • Comfortable reading, understanding, and modifying application code; developing automation tooling and scripts

Nice to have: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, SonarQube, Snyk, Blue/Green deployments, and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude).

What Makes You Stand Out

  • Startup or scale-up experience
  • Ownership of production AWS platforms
  • Experience building cloud platforms from the ground up
  • Cloud transformation or modernisation track record
  • Strong automation background

Relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.

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