Senior AWS Data Engineer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

BIT004516/Sam

Date posted:

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Are you passionate about building scalable data solutions in the cloud? We’re looking for a Senior AWS Data Engineer to play a key role in designing and maintaining robust data platforms that power real business outcomes.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

Spearhead, support and maintain production and non-production database systems and platforms.
Automate data infrastructure deployment with CI/CD principles, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Enforce governance standards including data security, ML best practices, SDLC, change, incident, and release management.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or Engineering (or equivalent).
8+ years of hands-on experience with major data platforms (e.g., SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, RDS).
4+ years of practical experience with AWS cloud and services such as:
- S3, Athena, Glue, RDS, Redshift, Lake Formation, SageMaker, Lambda, etc.
Strong understanding of data warehousing, pipeline automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
Familiarity with AI/ML platforms.

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Samkelisiwe Makhanye
Recruitment Consultant

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