AWS Cloud Engineer (Stellenbosch Hybrid, UK Work H

ENVIRONMENT:

CONSIDER yourself a Cloud Wizard??? Then our client, a UK-based comprehensive Digital Agency wants you as its next AWS Cloud 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 A
  
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