Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Homegrown South African fintech company, driving ambitious change in payments and loyalty, bringing the benefits of ecommerce to any environment.

Essential Criteria

• 3+ Years of experience with AWS
• Intermediate Linux experience ubuntu/Debian
• Strong Windows experience
• Networking experience

Required Experience

• Relevant IT qualification or experience if no formal qualification
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or relevant experience.
• Monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (built and managed) using AWS with the following competencies: EC2, ECS – Fargate, VPC - security groups, VPN, Natting, peering, R53 – DNS public/private, S3 AMI, IAM, AWS Back UP, RDS, Dynamodb, Elasticache, DMS, Directory service/AD management/DNS,API Gateway, Cloudfront.
• Cloud Formation templates/CDK Knowledge
• Certificate management, IIS and Linux
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD advantageous.
• Documentation

Role responsibilities

• Create a strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in AWS
• Manage stability and reliability, including dedicated root cause analysis, proactive monitoring, and long-term remediation.
• Implement and analyse service metrics to drive service quality and improvements, e.g., metrics for monitoring and alerting.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives and providing associated training as is required.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Continually evaluate service and infrastructure usage to effectively manage resources, capacity, and cost.

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot problems with limited insights.
• Detail orientated.
• Comfortable working with a small team in a fast-paced environment.