Infrastructure Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment · Pretoria, Gauteng · R1.00 - R2.00 per hour
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Start free — we apply for you →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.
RequirementsESSENTIAL 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
Desired Skills
- AWS
- Networking fundamentals
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD
Desired Qualification Level
- Degree