Infrastructure Engineer

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Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology • Professional Services
The Role
Design, build, and operate secure, highly available, scalable cloud platforms supporting a Zero Trust and cloud transformation initiative. The role focuses on AWS infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, security controls, infrastructure testing, observability, APIs, and platform reliability. Responsibilities include implementing monitoring, optimizing performance and costs, managing disaster recovery and backups, and integrating identity, security, and event-driven services.
Summary Generated by Built In

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


Skills Required

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
  • Deep knowledge of DNS, Route 53, VPCs, subnets, and application/network load balancers
  • Expertise with S3, RDS, EC2, and EKS
  • Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong knowledge of IAM, RBAC, OAuth2, identity providers, secrets management, and security frameworks
  • Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience with Terraform and GitHub Actions
  • Experience with automated IaC testing, plan/apply validation, IaC security scanning, and secure deployment pipelines
  • Experience implementing monitoring and observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, CloudWatch Logs, or Application Insights
  • Experience designing secure, highly available, and scalable platform architectures
  • Experience building, consuming, and integrating infrastructure and platform APIs
  • AWS Cloud Ops Engineer Associate and/or Developer certification
  • Typically 6 or more years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
  • Proven experience operating secure, scalable, highly available AWS cloud platforms
  • Java or Python experience for automation and platform tooling
  • Knowledge of a database query language
  • Exposure to Kafka or other message-based platforms
  • Experience with SAP enterprise infrastructure
  • Knowledge of secret and certificate lifecycle management at scale
  • Experience with performance tuning, cost optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies
  • Knowledge of identity and access governance or Zero Trust integrations
  • Experience with GHAS, IaC scanning, and vulnerability management
  • Familiarity with Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge
  • Experience with Confluence, Jira, and Agile working environments
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The Company
Year Founded: 2013

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