Senior AWS Cloud Consultant

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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DVT

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1999

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Insurance • Logistics

DVT is a global custom software development and data engineering company. With over 600 staff across offices in South Africa, Kenya, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, DVT provides a range of services including custom software development, mobile app development, Microsoft services, staff augmentation, AI solutions, and cloud application services. DVT partners with clients to transform their businesses through digital transformation and agile consulting. The company focuses on delivering IT solutions across various sectors such as retail, banking, insurance, education, and media. DVT is known for its expertise in software engineering and application modernization, providing agile teams and IT professionals to meet diverse technological needs.

📋 Description

• Own AWS solution architecture, platform design and environment configuration • Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure supporting production workloads • Make decisions on AWS service selection, security, networking, scalability, resilience and operational management • Drive infrastructure automation and standardisation using Infrastructure as Code • Ensure cloud solutions are secure, maintainable and aligned to AWS best practices • Lead technical design discussions and provide architectural guidance • Design and build integrations between Salesforce and AWS-hosted systems • Implement synchronous API, EventBridge event-driven and S3-based batch integrations • Lead migration from GitFlow to trunk-based deployment and promotion patterns • Design and implement secure GitLab CI/CD practices • Improve security scanning using Snyk and related tooling • Establish monitoring, tracing, dashboards and alerting across AWS and Salesforce • Leverage Amazon CloudWatch and improve operational visibility and platform reliability • Lead and mentor engineers across the programme • Establish technical standards, engineering practices and architectural governance • Provide technical direction while remaining actively involved in delivery • Communicate complex technical concepts to 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

• 10+ years of cloud engineering, platform engineering or cloud architecture experience • Proven experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer, AWS Platform Engineer or AWS Solutions Architect • Extensive experience designing, building and operating production AWS environments • Demonstrable ownership of AWS infrastructure and architecture decisions • Strong experience configuring and troubleshooting AWS services directly • Experience making architectural, security and operational decisions for cloud platforms • Strong knowledge of AWS networking, IAM, compute, storage, monitoring and security services • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK • Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including trunk-based deployment approaches • Experience building integrations using API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge and S3 • Hands-on observability experience using CloudWatch, monitoring, tracing and alerting solutions • Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills • Salesforce integration experience, including Platform Events, Change Data Capture and REST/Bulk APIs (advantageous) • Google Cloud Platform experience, particularly IAM, BigQuery and project setup (advantageous) • Experience with Snyk or similar SAST/SCA tooling (advantageous) • Experience with AWS X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana or similar observability tooling (advantageous) • AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate, Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional (advantageous) • Experience delivering large-scale cloud transformation or platform modernisation initiatives (advantageous) • Must have Matric/equivalent • Must have the legal right to work in South Africa without employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Continuous staff training • Internal speaking and training opportunities • Sponsored technical events across the AWS ecosystem • Learning-focused culture • Opportunity to work with latest technologies and established developers