Senior AWS Cloud Consultant

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of AWS solution architecture, platform design, and environment setup.

• Create, build, and maintain 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 through Infrastructure as Code.

• Ensure that cloud solutions are secure, maintainable, and adhere to AWS best practices.

• Facilitate technical design discussions and offer architectural guidance.

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

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

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

• Design and establish secure GitLab CI/CD practices.

• Enhance security scanning processes using Snyk and related tools.

• Set up monitoring, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across AWS and Salesforce environments.

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

• Mentor engineers throughout the program.

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

• Provide technical direction while remaining actively engaged in delivery.

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

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

• Configure Google Cloud environments for data teams, including IAM, project setup, and foundational infrastructure for BigQuery and Google Analytics workloads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.

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

• Extensive background in designing, building, and operating production AWS environments.

• Demonstrable ownership of decisions regarding AWS infrastructure and architecture.

• Strong capability 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 implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Strong expertise in GitLab CI/CD, particularly with trunk-based deployment methods.

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

• Practical experience in observability using CloudWatch, monitoring, tracing, and alerting solutions.

• Proven track record in technical leadership and mentoring.

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

• Experience with Salesforce integration, including Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and REST/Bulk APIs (preferred).

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

• Experience with Snyk or similar SAST/SCA tools (preferred).

• Knowledge of AWS X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, or similar observability tools (preferred).

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate, Solutions Architect Professional, or DevOps Engineer Professional (preferred).

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

• Must possess Matric or an equivalent qualification.

• Must have the legal right to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing staff training opportunities.

• Internal opportunities for speaking and training.

• Sponsored participation in technical events across the AWS ecosystem.

• A culture centered around learning.

• Opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technologies and seasoned developers.