AWS DevOps Engineer Job Pennington South Africa,IT/Tech

Location: Pennington

Description

The AWS Dev Ops Engineer plays a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that supports high‑availability enterprise applications. This role partners closely with project teams, Solutions Architects, and technical SMEs across Bank of America to deliver robust, secure, and scalable AWS environments. The ideal candidate brings strong, hands on AWS engineering experience, deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, and the ability to translate architectural requirements into well‑designed cloud implementations.

This job is responsible for configuring complex software delivery automation. Key responsibilities include ensuring software deployments are configured to meet access, ownership, and authentication standards. This job may modify code for software deployment automation and ensures software promotion pipelines for complex/high availability applications follow Continuous Delivery best practices. Job expectations include the ability to integrate development, testing practices, software delivery tools, and runtime application standards at the bank.

Responsibilities:

Configures and maintains the set of tools and services that provide Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) services and validates access control mechanisms for the Software and Infrastructure Engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle

Reviews the configuration of applications servers to confirm that CI/CD service platform onboarding pre-requisites are available and configured properly

Monitors and responds to alerts based on the key performance indicators (KPI) for the services supporting CI/CD and escalated events and issues from Dev Ops Engineers, creating issues and action-plan summaries for stakeholders

Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Cloud Formation optional).

Implement and optimize AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, Cloud Watch, and related components.

Ensure all infrastructure meets enterprise standards for security, access control, authentication, and governance.

Collaborate with Architecture and Infrastructure teams (Network, Load Balancing, Storage, IAM, Middleware, DBAs, SRE) to ensure successful cloud deployments.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience

5+ years of hands-on experience with Terra Form and AWS

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Experience with Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud

Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles

Experience with Git and version control workflows

Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline)

Understanding of container technologies (Docker, ECS, EKS)

Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions

Strong Excel and Visio skills

Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar languages

Experience with secrets management and infrastructure security

Understanding of networking concepts on AWS

Experience with configuration management tools

Understanding of software development lifecycle

Ability to design architectural solutions for complex technology problems using available and emerging technologies

Ability to work with various departments in a large organization to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan

Desired

Qualifications:

OS management experience (Windows and Linux)

Middleware (Apache, Weblogic, Websphere, IIS, etc.)

Databases (Postgres, RDS, Redis , Oracle, MSSQL)

Load Balancing (F5, AVI, Nginx, etc.)

Network (TCPIP, Firewalls, DNS, etc.)

Storage (Local, SAN, NAS, s3, etc.)

Active Directory and access management

Cloud infrastructure and virtualization

Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience

Ansible experience

Scripting (BASH, Powershell, etc.) experience

Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)

Skills:

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Dev Ops Practices

Result Orientation

Solution Delivery Process

Adaptability

Application Development

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Project Management

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Shift:

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