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Senior Cloud – AWS Support Engineer
Location
South Africa
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Cloud – AWS Support Engineer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Manage AWS operations and lead incident response • Build infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD • Improve reliability and provide day-to-day AWS operational support • Own incident, alert, and request triage, on-call response, and operational health of the client's AWS estate • Work closely with client platform and engineering teams to keep production stable while improving it • Participate in incident management and lead structured incident response and post-incident reviews • Manage the operational ticket queue and maintain clear communication to client stakeholders • Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and provisioning • Collaborate with software teams to integrate and deploy backend services and containerised applications • Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with relevant standards
Job Requirements
- 7+ years in Cloud DevOps, SRE, or AWS operational support, with strong CI/CD and infrastructure automation experience
- Hands-on experience running AWS managed support / operations — incident management, alert triage, on-call, and SLA-bound resolution
- Deep AWS proficiency: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM (Identity Center), CloudWatch, X-Ray
- Expert IaC (Terraform required; CloudFormation beneficial) — remote state, modules, multi-environment
- Strong CI/CD platform experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, GitLab CI, or Jenkins)
- Advanced scripting in Bash or Python for automation and tooling
- Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm beneficial)
- Familiarity with AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Health alert handling and triage
- Experience with ITSM / ticketing workflows and structured incident, problem, and change management
- Monitoring/observability tooling (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- AWS networking — VPC design, security groups, load balancers, DNS, hybrid connectivity
- Secrets management (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, HashiCorp Vault)
- DevSecOps practices — SCA/SAST/DAST, vulnerability and compliance automation
- AWS cost optimisation, tagging strategies, and FinOps practices
- Excellent communication; proven mentorship; consulting / professional-services delivery across concurrent client engagements
- Minimum Requirements: Matric (Grade 12) certificate
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- At least one relevant professional certification (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, CKA, or equivalent)
- South African work authorisation or valid work permit
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation for production AWS support
- Ability to travel occasionally for client meetings or site visits.
Benefits
- Professional development
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Sponsored technical events
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