AWS Cloud Engineer

IQbusiness is the largest South African management and technology consulting firm, attracting top talent and ambitious clients, both locally and globally.

We are looking for DevOps Engineers who can complement the capabilities of our agile solution development teams. With your cloud management and sysadmin skills, you build and maintain environments. You enrich the solution architecture from an operations point of view and support the flow of work by provisioning automated build and deploy pipelines.

Key Responsibilities and/or Outputs

• Design and promote operational practices and procedures, working closely with the Solution Development Lead
• Promote best practices in all facets of the Solution Delivery LifeCycle (Plan, Code, Build, Test, Deploy, Operate, Monitor) with the team and stakeholders
• Architect, provision, monitor and manage various environments (cloud and datacentre)
• Implement and configure health telemetry (along with thresholds) to monitor solution and environment performance and behaviour
• Design, implement and maintain automated build pipelines and automated deployment pipelines
• Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations by providing frequent progress and seeking feedback
• Monitor maturity of the DevOps practices and any blockers that either impedes the flow or the quality of the solution
• Drive DevOps automation and containerization strategies that align with DevOps principles and standards
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Conduct incident management and root cause analysis
• Mentor and guide fellow team members
• Provision and developed infrastructure using configuration management and containerization technologies (Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager)
• Define and promote version control and continuous code integration activities (Git (or any derivative), TFVC, SVN)
• Design, build, maintain and optimize automated build pipeline (TFS, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy)
• Experience working on open source platforms (Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Node.js, etc)
• Knowledge of virtualization environments (VMWare, OpenStack, KVM)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell scripting, Git, Linux, Shell, Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates, AWS ECS
• Experience in performance/stress testing is good to have
• Experience in Agile is a must

Requirements

• 3+ years working experience in related field
• Bachelor degree (Advantageous)
• Intermediate Level: Azure Associate Level OR AWS Associate Level
• Senior Level: Azure Expert Level OR AWS Professional Level

Please Note:
As all IQbusiness roles require honesty in the handling of or access to cash, finances, financial systems, or confidential information; our recruitment process requires that the following background checks be completed: credit, criminal, ID, and qualification verification.

IQbusiness is committed to sustainable growth and transformation, we embrace diversity and employ previously disadvantaged individuals