Job Description
Pretoria/Centurion – Gauteng – South Africa
- Manage CI/CD and release pipelines for various environments, implementing safe deployment strategies.
- Define and maintain IaaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) across AWS (ECS, EC2, ElastiCache, S3 and more).
- Conduct routine vulnerability scans, manage remediation, and maintain security best practices.
- Build and maintain observability pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) and create actionable alerts.
- Partner with Engineers to improve system reliability and scalability following the AWS well-architected framework.
- Manage secrets, configuration, and access control (IAM, SSM).
- Prepare and maintain Disaster Recovery documentation, runbooks, and postmortem processes.
- Monitor logs and system signals to identify defects and create detailed Jira tickets.
- Optimise Postgres (with TimescaleDB) performance through indexing, query tuning, and resource allocation.
- Oversee backup and restore strategies (PITR, snapshots, retention policies) with regular drills.
- Design and operate high-availability and replication strategies (Multi-AZ, read replicas, cross-region failover).
- Collaborate with Engineers for safe schema changes and zero-downtime migrations.
- Strong background in Linux administration and expertise in managing large-scale systems.
- 5+ Years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS infrastructure with services like ECS, ElastiCache, EC2, IAM, KMS, and CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience in automation and configuration management using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, ECS autoscaling, and Node.js deployments.
- Proven record in implementing backup/recovery strategies and replication topologies.
- Security expertise in IAM, dependency scanning, and least-privilege access.
- Proficient with observability tools and alerting best practices.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL performance tuning.
- AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are highly preferred.
- NewRelic and SolarWinds experience.
- Node.js development experience.
- Ability to take ownership of projects and self-manage without constant supervision.
- Capable of managing multiple projects concurrently while meeting deadlines.
- Strong teamwork and independent problem-solving skills.
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