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Infrastructure Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Posted 4 days ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Cullinan, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer (Expert) with a focus on cloud transformation and Zero Trust initiatives.
  • The role requires extensive hands-on experience, typically 6+ years, in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps, with a strong emphasis on AWS.
  • Candidates should possess strong skills in networking, security, automation, and container technologies, as well as experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
  • The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including flexible working hours and a high work-life balance.
  • This hands-on engineering role is ideal for those who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and designing scalable, secure platforms.

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer (Expert) who knows that great applications are only as good as the infrastructure underneath them.

You'll be joining a global technology environment working on a major Zero Trust and cloud transformation initiative, helping design, build and operate secure, highly available and scalable platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll be working with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, security, automation and observability, while solving complex problems that don't always come with a ready-made answer.

If you enjoy turning infrastructure challenges into automated, secure and reliable solutions, this could be your next big challenge.



Requirements

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform as the primary cloud provider.
  • Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals including DNS (ROUTE53), VPC & Subnets, load balancers (ALB & NLB).
  • Expertise with storage (S3, RDS DB's) and compute services (EC2, EC6 & EKS) in public cloud environments.
  • Proficient with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for platform deployments.
  • Strong competence in security controls: IAM, RBAC (Oauth2, IdP), secrets management and security frameworks.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience using Terraform and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions & workflows).
  • Infrastructure testing and security: experience building automated tests for IaC (unit tests, plan/apply validations), IaC security scanning (e.g., checkov, tfsec) and secure deployment pipelines.
  • Experience implementing and operating monitoring and observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus, LOKI, CloudWatch Logs & Application Insights).
  • Skilled in designing secure, highly available and scalable platform architectures.
  • Comfortable building, consuming and integrating interfaces and APIs across infrastructure and platform components.
ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:
  • Experience or familiarity with Java and Python for automation and platform tooling.
  • Knowledge of a database query language.
  • Exposure to message-based platforms such as Kafka.
  • Experience with enterprise systems infrastructure such as SAP.
  • Understanding of secret and certificate lifecycle management at scale.
  • Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization strategies.
  • Experience with high-availability design patterns, disaster recovery and backup strategies.
  • Knowledge on identity and access governance or Zero Trust platform integrations.
  • Experience with CI/CD security scanning (GHAS, IaC scanning) and vulnerability management.
  • Familiarity with serverless platforms (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) for event-driven workloads.
  • Experience with ATC Confluence & Jira in a agile working environment.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:
  • AWS Cloud Ops Engineer Associate and/or Developer.
  • Extensive hands-on experience (typically 6+ years) in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering or DevOps roles with strong AWS experience.
  • Proven track record of designing and operating secure, scalable, highly available cloud platforms, with demonstrable experience in networking, containers, security and automation.
  • Strong systems thinking, risk management and problem-solving skills; Have a curious solution-minded, takes ownership, drives topics.


Benefits

  • Cutting edge global IT system landscape and processes
  • Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12-month period
  • High Work-Life balance
  • Remote / On-site work location flexibility
  • Highly motivating, energetic, and fast-paced working environment
  • Modern, state-of-the-art offices
  • Dynamic Global Team collaboration
  • Application of the Agile Working Model Methodology





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