AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer, Cape Town

If you are an AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer with at least 3 years of experience, ideally in the fintech space we would like to reach out to you!

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer (Fintech exposure highly advantageous)
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Creation of modular CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions)
• Docker and Kubernetes (Helm experience NB)
• Managing incidents and monitoring uptime with tools like PagerDuty
• Managing Linux servers
• Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, OpenSearch)
• Scripting with Bash or Python
• Secure networking principles and security-first architecture
• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Practical, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to write concise technical documentation
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

SCOPE OF WORK:

• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
• Design and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Document architecture decisions and operational processes clearly and accessibly
• Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and regulatory standards
• Lead incident response efforts and continuously improve reliability practices
• Maintain and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across environments
• Monitor system health and ensure high uptime with observability best practices
• Partner with engineers to optimise development workflows and release processes
• Challenges you'll need to solve:
• Ensuring zero-downtime deployments in a distributed microservice architecture
• Scaling infrastructure cost-effectively as transaction volumes increase
• Creating developer tooling that supports velocity without sacrificing reliability
• Balancing security, compliance, and speed in a complex payments environment