Senior AWS Cloud Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of AWS solution architecture, platform design, and environment configuration.

• Design, construct, and manage AWS infrastructure that supports production workloads.

• Make informed decisions regarding AWS service selection, security, networking, scalability, resilience, and operational management.

• Propel infrastructure automation and standardization utilizing Infrastructure as Code.

• Ensure that cloud solutions are secure, maintainable, and in alignment with AWS best practices.

• Facilitate technical design discussions and offer architectural guidance to delivery teams.

• Design and create integrations between Salesforce and AWS-hosted systems.

• Implement synchronous API, EventBridge event-driven, and S3-based batch integrations.

• Lead the transition from GitFlow to trunk-based deployment and promotion models.

• Design and enforce secure GitLab CI/CD methodologies.

• Enhance security scanning practices using Snyk and related tools.

• Establish monitoring, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across AWS and Salesforce platforms.

• Utilize Amazon CloudWatch to improve operational visibility and platform reliability.

• Lead and mentor engineers throughout the program.

• Set technical standards, engineering practices, and architectural governance.

• Provide technical direction while being actively engaged in delivery.

• Convey complex technical concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with cloud, CRM, platform, and business teams.

• Set up and configure Google Cloud environments for data teams, including IAM, project configuration, and foundational infrastructure for BigQuery and Google Analytics workloads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in infrastructure/cloud engineering, with a minimum of 5 years designing and operating production AWS environments.

• Proven track record as an AWS Cloud Engineer, AWS Platform Engineer, or AWS Solutions Architect.

• Extensive experience in designing, building, and operating production AWS ecosystems.

• Demonstrated ownership of AWS infrastructure and architectural decisions.

• Strong background in configuring and troubleshooting AWS services directly.

• Experience in making architectural, security, and operational decisions for cloud platforms.

• In-depth knowledge of AWS networking, IAM, compute, storage, monitoring, and security services.

• Experience in implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, including testing and validating IaC.

• Experience in building integrations with API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, and S3.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, monitoring, tracing, and alerting solutions.

• Independent technical ownership and mentoring experience is a plus.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

• Experience with Salesforce integration, including Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and REST/Bulk APIs is a plus.

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, especially IAM, BigQuery, and project setup.

• Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, particularly with trunk-based deployment strategies.

• Experience with Snyk or similar SAST/SCA tools.

• Proficiency with AWS X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, or similar observability tools.

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate, Solutions Architect Professional, or DevOps Engineer Professional are beneficial.

• Experience in delivering large-scale cloud transformation or platform modernization projects.

• Matric or equivalent qualification.

• Legal authorization to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing sponsored technical training and learning opportunities.

• Internal speaking and training opportunities.

• Sponsorship for technical events within the AWS ecosystem.