Cloud Engineer – JHB

at Ithemba Recruitment
Location Johannesburg, South Africa
Date Posted April 20, 2021
Category Engineering
Job Type Full-time
Currency ZAR

Description

A well-established company is searching for an experienced Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer with experience in planning, design, implementation, management and maintenance of applications within the cloud. This role will work closely with the development team to guide technology decisions and ensure systems are highly available, scalable, secure and meet compliance requirements. Applicants must have a good understanding of networking within the cloud and hosting of web applications (Sites and API’s) on Virtual Machines (EC2), Containerized applications (Fargate ECS) and serverless applications (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc) with the ability to test, monitor, troubleshoot and problem-solve the system.

Duties & Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities include:

● Management of the AWS Cloud Infrastructure and various systems and services within it.

● Recommending alternatives, trade-offs and impact analysis.

● Working with technical teams to finalize specification related to the integration of various systems.

● Identifying system integration issues and propose work arounds and solutions.

● Maintaining existing and make recommendations regarding new and existing cloud-based infrastructure.

● Understanding of the AWS and application landscape and make suggestions regarding the improvements.

● Ensuring that the system is highly available and scalable and make recommendations with action plans where it is not.

● Scripting/Automation of functions within the environment as well as writing infrastructure as code.

● Implementation of new technologies within the cloud infrastructure.

● Proactive and Reactive monitoring of cloud services and applications running with the cloud environment.

● Assist with deployments and debugging of applications within the cloud environment.

● Maintenance and Implementation of security measures.

● Maintenance and monitoring of the systems within the environment.

● Maintenance and creation of documentation surrounding the environment.

● Documenting best practices within the cloud environment.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Experience and qualifications include:

● 3 – 5 years of experience.

● Qualification related to cloud computing.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skill.

● Strong Critical thinking, problem solving and troubleshooting ability.

● Attention to detail.

● Exceptional organisational skills.

● Strong analytical abilities.

● Possess a strong work ethic and a team player mentality.

● Ability to balance multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment.

● Experience working within a Regulated environment (PCI, GDPR, etc)

● Ability to garner trust among project team and stakeholders

● Ability to function individually as well as in a team

Package & Remuneration

Attractive package will be offered to the right candidate.

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