Sr AWS Engineer

Overview

Indsafri City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Contract Duration : 6 months with possible extension

The Senior AWS Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role involves leading cloud architecture initiatives, optimizing performance, ensuring security compliance, and mentoring junior engineers.

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

Preferred Qualifications

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