Senior DevOps Engineer

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Our Client operates in a product-driven, engineering-led environment, building and maintaining platforms that support high-throughput applications, AI\/ML pipelines, and distributed systems at scale. You'll be part of a core engineering function responsible for internal platforms that power the entire product ecosystem. You'll take ownership of multi-cloud production infrastructure, working across environments to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and continuously improving. Responsibilities: Design, deploy, and manage multi-region cloud infrastructure on AWS Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across multiple environments Develop and optimise CI\/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue\/green, rollbacks) Own monitoring, alerting, and incident response across production environments Manage and optimise databases (MySQL\/Aurora), including upgrades and performance tuning Maintain and scale messaging systems (RabbitMQ) and distributed services Continuously improve system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency Requirements: 7+ years in DevOps \/ Cloud Engineering roles with real ownership of production systems AWS Certifications Proven experience supporting high-availability, large-scale systems Experience working in product, platform, or scale-up environments (non-client-facing) Advanced AWS experience (EC2, RDS\/Aurora, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront) Multi-region and high-availability architecture Strong Terraform experience (modular design, remote state, multi-env setups) Jenkins pipelines and deployment orchestration Blue\/green deployments, rollback strategies Strong MySQL\/Aurora experience (performance tuning, upgrades, backups) Prometheus, Grafana, logging stacks (ELK or similar) Strong incident response and root cause ownership Advanced Linux administration (Ubuntu), Bash scripting Apply now! For more exciting IT vacancies, please visit: I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Developers\/Engineers\/Architects Data Analytics Specialists PM\/BA\/Scrum Masters DevOps and Infrastructure Experts If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information contact: Samkelisiwe Makhanye Recruitment Consultant