AWS Data Engineer (Senior) 2517

Recruiter:

Jordan HR

Job Ref:

JHB009406/BG

Date posted:

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

SUMMARY:
AWS Data Engineer

POSITION INFO:
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
Exceptional experience/understanding (in order of importance):

Terraform
Python 3x
SQL - Oracle/PostgreSQL
Py Spark
Boto3
ETL
Docker
Linux / Unix
Big Data
Powershell / Bash

Experience in working with Enterprise Collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA etc.
Experience developing technical documentation and artefacts.
Knowledge of data formats such as Parquet, AVRO, JSON, XML, CSV etc.
Experience working with Data Quality Tools such as Great Expectations.
Experience developing and working with REST API's is a bonus.
Basic experience in Networking and troubleshooting network issues.
Any additional responsibilities assigned In the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Exceptional analytical skills analysing large and complex data sets.
- Perform thorough testing and data validation to ensure the accuracy of data transformations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with precise documentation.
- Self-driven team player with ability to work independently and multi-task.
- Experience building data pipeline using AWS Glue or Data Pipeline, or similar platforms.
- Familiar with data store such as AWS S3, and AWS RDS or DynamoDB.
- Experience and solid understanding of various software design patterns.
- Experience preparing specifications from which programs will be written, designed, coded, tested and debugged.
- Strong organizational skills.

Experience / understanding of AWS Components (in order of importance):

Glue
CloudWatch
SNS
Athena
S3
Kinesis Streams (Kinesis, Kinesis Firehose)
Lambda
DynamoDB
Step Function
Param Store
Code Build/Pipeline
CloudFormation
Technical data modelling and schema design (“not drag and drop”)
Kafka
AWS EMR
Redshift

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE NEEDED

Relevant IT / Business / Engineering Degree
Candidates with one or more of the certifications are preferred:
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified SysOps Associate
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS Certified Architect Associate
AWS Certified Architect Professional
Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate

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