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AWS DevOps Consultant at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

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  • Contract Junior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 15 Oct 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2646243 - Ref 878000025386353
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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer




Contract | 12 months | Start: January 2027
Hybrid — Johannesburg


The Role
Lead the design, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to enable secure, reliable software delivery while maintaining highly available cloud environments.


Focus: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (40%) · DevOps & CI/CD (30%) · Automation & Software Engineering (30%)


What You’ll Do

  • Design, implement, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with strong resilience and disaster recovery.
  • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
  • Apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles; manage encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager, and remediate security findings.
  • Support production environments, participate in on-call, drive root-cause analysis, and improve platform reliability.
  • Mentor engineers, review infrastructure and application code, and lead modernisation initiatives.
What You Bring
Preferred: 10+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with strong production AWS experience at scale (enterprise, startup, or scale-up).


Alternative path considered: 6+ years with significant production ownership, deep AWS operational experience, strong automation capability, and rapid technical progression (startup/scale-up experience a plus).


Core AWS skills: ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Organizations, cross-account architectures, and cloud security governance.


Also required:


  • Infrastructure as Code and automation
  • Security fundamentals (encryption, IAM, least privilege, Zero Trust, Security by Design)
  • Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  • Comfortable reading, understanding, and modifying application code; developing automation tooling and scripts
Nice to have: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, SonarQube, Snyk, Blue/Green deployments, and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude).


What Makes You Stand Out
  • Startup or scale-up experience
  • Ownership of production AWS platforms
  • Experience building cloud platforms from the ground up
  • Cloud transformation or modernisation track record
  • Strong automation background
Relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.




Desired Skills:

  • CloudFormation
  • AWS
  • CDK
  • EKS
  • Kubernetes

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:


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Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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