Senior AWS Cloud – DevOps Consultant

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Senior AWS DevOps Consultant modernizing lottery systems for DVT, a South African software consultancy. Building Salesforce integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud observability.

Responsibilities:

  • Support the client's CRM and data teams with cloud work for the Fast Track to the Future programme
  • Design and build integrations between Salesforce and AWS-hosted systems using synchronous APIs, Amazon EventBridge and Amazon S3 batch flows
  • Use AWS services to build features not currently offered by Salesforce
  • Make integrations secure, reliable and supportable, including error handling, retries and replay
  • Improve GitLab CI/CD by moving from GitFlow to trunk-based deployment and propagation
  • Improve repository security scanning with Snyk
  • Set up and improve observability across AWS and Salesforce, including tracing, dashboards and alerting
  • Build observability mainly with Amazon CloudWatch and assess external tooling
  • Set up GCP accounts, permissions and basic infrastructure for Google Analytics and BigQuery
  • Propose solution architecture, then build, test and implement solutions
  • Explain and justify designs to cloud engineers, CRM stakeholders and business stakeholders
  • Work with the client's existing cloud and CRM organisations
  • Perform client-facing consulting

Requirements:

  • 5+ years' hands-on AWS cloud / DevOps engineering experience at a senior level
  • Proven experience building AWS integrations with APIs, Amazon EventBridge and file-based batch flows on Amazon S3
  • Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including trunk-based development and deployment / promotion patterns
  • Hands-on observability experience with tracing, dashboards and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch
  • Ability to propose solution architecture and explain and justify it to engineers and business stakeholders
  • Motivated and self-driven, with strong communication skills
  • Google Cloud experience, including projects, IAM, basic infrastructure and BigQuery (advantageous)
  • Salesforce integration experience (advantageous)
  • Snyk or similar SCA / SAST tooling in CI/CD pipelines (advantageous)
  • AWS X-Ray, OpenTelemetry or external observability tools such as Datadog or Grafana (advantageous)
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation (advantageous)
  • AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (advantageous)
  • Experience on large multi-country or multi-brand platform consolidation programmes (advantageous)
  • Matric or equivalent
  • Legal right to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship

Benefits:

  • Continuously training staff
  • Culture of learning
  • Internal speaking and training
  • Sponsored technical events across the AWS ecosystem