Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

 

Recruiter:

IT STAFFING

Job Ref:

CIE

Date posted:

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

sal + ben


SUMMARY:
Homegrown SA Fintech company is recruiting

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

 

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