Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

PDG8966298

Date posted:

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

R400 - 600 per hour

SUMMARY:
Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a global tech firm is seeking a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join their team in Cape town on a contract basis (6 to 12 months). The role will be onsite and remote.

Description

As an AWS Infra Engineer, you are the infra specialist of our team. You take care of the infrastructure of the AWS backend. You uphold quality and give your input for requirements to upgrade, update and expand our components. You have a good sense of ownership and will work closely with our Developers, Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Duties

Implementation according to the Well Architect Framework
Ability to automate, scale, storage, monitor, update, backups, high-availability and disaster recovery
Ability to efficiently communicate and coordinate in case of emergency
Ability to teach your colleague’s about AWS and implementations
You like to work in a context where you can independently take up tasks E2E
Develop reusable and reliable automated scripts and make them part of continuous integration / build systems
Deploy, scale and automate AWS services across multiple regions.
Participate in the research and development of the automated and replicable "infrastructure as a code" approaches.
Tune system parameters and configurations to optimize performance.
Take ownership of problem resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner
Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems and services
Developing and maintaining operations tools

Your Profile

You have a senior profile with 5 to 7 years of exp.
You are AWS Associate certified
Good understanding of AWS cloud computing services and cloud computing delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
hands-on software development, infrastructure engineering, solution architecture or support of research software engineering
Experience with SQL, Cloud Technology and IP Networking
Understanding on Linux and other Linux flavored OS (CentOS, Ubuntu etic)
Systems management/administration automation in Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, or related experience
Ability to work with off-shore and distributed teams

Requirements

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
Experience in using AWS services
3+ years systems engineering experience
3+ years Linux experience
3+ years systems automation experience
Experience with virtualization and/or containerization technologies such as Docker/ESXi/KVM

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