Stellenbosch: AWS DevSecOps Engineer (Stellenbosch Hybrid, UK Work Hours)

ENVIRONMENT: CONSIDER yourself a Cloud Wizard??? Then our client, a UK-based comprehensive Digital Agency wants you as its next AWS DevSecOps Engineer. You will help drive delivery of a 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. Applicants must have 3 years relevant work experience including being an AWS guru or aficionado desired, especially bespoke solution deployment at scale, web hosting expertise using EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda or Elastic Beanstalk & possess Platform certifications such as AWS Associate/Professional, Security, etc. DUTIES: 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. REQUIREMENTS: MUST-HAVEs – 3 Years relevant work experience. 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. You will be expected to have some of these 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 Beneficial but not required (Upskilling supported) – Azure, M365 or Dynamics 365 administration and deployment. Office 365 management, especially Exchange and SharePoint. ATTRIBUTES: 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. Work effectively with remote teams in India Able to work flexibly to deliver on time to tight timescales.