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Infrastructure Engineer

Sabenza It
Posted 2 hours ago
South AfricaRemoteEngineering & Development
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Job Description

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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