AWS DevSecOps Engineer - South Africa

AWS DevSecOps Engineer 

Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits 

Where the job is based: Stellenbosch Kerv South Africa Office, will need to be in the office 2-3 days per week

Who we are: 

Kerv South Africa solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, Stellenbosch, and Bangalore. 

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored. 

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking architects. 

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way. 

Who we are looking for: 

We are seeking a cloud wizard to join our team and help drive delivery of our rapidly expanding software and managed services portfolio. You’ll need to effortlessly juggle support of multi-platform cloud services, virtual-machines, databases and application servers across many customers, cloudy infrastructure providers and environments while helping to build cutting-edge solutions through insightful infrastructure delivery. 

All backgrounds will always be considered and experience here is far more important. We’re really open to Engineers that have a solid transferable background in supporting technically diverse development and production infrastructure running custom software, hosted in public clouds. We’re looking for someone who can work with our Solutions and Delivery Management teams to identify and resolve issues with the design, development and deployment of software solutions. 

We’ll expect you to have all the following skills: 

• AWS guru or aficionado desired, especially bespoke solution deployment at scale 

• AWS DevSecOps Continuous Integration (CI/CD) distributed setup & management 

• Experience with IaC tools 

• Understanding of monolithic, microservice & serverless architectures 

• Virtual infrastructure provisioning & management in AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, networking 

• Web hosting expertise using EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda or Elastic Beanstalk (IIS/ASP.NET/PHP optional but beneficial) 

• Solid backup, monitoring & observability setup/management using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, etc. 

• Good net basics: IPv4/6, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/S, firewalling & load‑balancing (ALB/ELB/NLB) 

• Building images & developing scripting automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar 

• Platform-specific certifications, e.g. AWS Associate/Professional, Security+, etc. 

We’ll expect you to have some of the following skills: 

• Appreciation for modern development stacks, e.g. .NET Core, JavaScript, JSON, XML, REST APIs, build pipelines & debugging 

• Other OS/environment support, especially Linux and common web stacks 

• Database experience with MS SQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB or MongoDB 

• Source control appreciation — GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket 

• Environment migration to cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS-first but Azure experience also valued 

You’ll need to demonstrate experience with: 

• Affect changes in live environments safely, deploying architectures using appropriate change control procedures 

• Remedy issues in our 3rd line ticket queue, including effective prioritisation, assignment to development teams and escalating resolution where required to ensure we meet our SLAs 

• Manage all day-to-day upkeep of environments including configuring/maintaining backups, monitoring, security, and patching 

• Create clear and effective documentation  

• Troubleshoot problems when they occur, quickly and efficiently 

Beneficial but not required (upskilling supported): 

• Azure, M365 or Dynamics 365 administration and deployment (bonus; upskilling supported) 

• Office 365 management, especially Exchange and SharePoint (bonus; upskilling supported) 

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like: 

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed 

• a geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication 

• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things! 

• ability to identify and pick-up new technologies quickly 

• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India 

• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales 

What we can do for you: 

You will live the Kerv values…

• Think Customer First


• Team is everything


• Spread good vibes


• Build future


• Do the right thing

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.