Senior AWS Cloud & DevOps Consultant

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

📋 Description

• Assist the client's CRM and data teams with cloud-related tasks.

• Create and develop integrations between Salesforce and current AWS-hosted systems utilizing synchronous APIs, Amazon EventBridge events, and file-based batch flows on Amazon S3.

• Leverage AWS services to implement features that are not currently available in Salesforce.

• Ensure integrations are secure, dependable, and maintainable, incorporating error handling, retries, and replay mechanisms.

• Enhance GitLab CI/CD processes and transition from GitFlow to the standardized group trunk-based deployment and propagation model.

• Strengthen repository security scanning using Snyk.

• Establish and enhance observability across AWS and Salesforce, including tracing, dashboards, and alerts.

• Build upon Amazon CloudWatch and evaluate external observability tools.

• Set up GCP accounts, permissions, and fundamental infrastructure for Google Analytics and BigQuery.

• Take ownership of AWS solution architecture and guide design, environment setup, configuration, testing, and implementation.

• Lead and mentor engineers, establish technical direction, and uphold accountability for the quality of delivery.

• Make and defend decisions regarding AWS architecture, security, configuration, and operations.

• Articulate and justify designs to cloud engineers, CRM stakeholders, and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the client's existing cloud and CRM organizations.

• Offer client-facing consulting and technical leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud and DevOps engineering, including demonstrated team leadership at a senior or lead level.

• Proven track record in leading cloud or DevOps teams and providing technical direction for complex AWS delivery projects.

• Clear evidence of end-to-end ownership of AWS environment setup and configuration, including making personal architecture and implementation decisions.

• Strong history of configuring and troubleshooting AWS environments personally.

• Demonstrated experience in building AWS integrations using APIs such as API Gateway and Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and file-based batch flows on Amazon S3.

• Extensive GitLab CI/CD experience, including trunk-based development and deployment/promotion methodologies.

• Practical experience with observability, including tracing, dashboards, and alerts using Amazon CloudWatch.

• Ability to propose solution architectures and articulate them to engineers and business stakeholders effectively.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Experience with Google Cloud, including projects, IAM, basic infrastructure, and BigQuery (preferred).

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

• Experience with Snyk or similar SCA/SAST tools in CI/CD pipelines (preferred).

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

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation (preferred).

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

• Experience with large-scale multi-country or multi-brand platform consolidation projects (preferred).

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

• Matric or equivalent qualification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing staff training opportunities.

• Sponsorship for technical events within the AWS ecosystem.

• Opportunities for learning, internal speaking, and training.