AWS Developer / Engineer

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Engineering
• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using best practices and well-architected principles.
• Build scalable and highly available environments using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront.
• Implement networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
• Support hybrid and multi-account AWS environments.
• Coding & Automation Responsibilities
• The AWS Cloud Engineer is expected to perform engineering-focused coding in support of cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability. This role does not involve application feature development.
• Scope of Coding
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using:
• AWS CloudFormation
• Terraform
• AWS CDK (TypeScript or Python)
• Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to:
• Provision and configure AWS resources
• Automate operational tasks and housekeeping
• Support account baselining and governance controls
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for:
• Infrastructure deployment
• Configuration management
• Controlled environment promotion
• Create reusable modules, templates, and libraries to standardise cloud environments.
• Coding Standards & Practices
• Follow version control best practices (Git-based workflows).
• Write clean, reusable, and well-documented code.
• Implement peer reviews and testing for infrastructure code.
• Ensure security, compliance, and least-privilege principles are embedded in code
• Security & Governance
• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM roles and policies, least-privilege access, encryption, and key management.
• Enforce governance controls using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, and account baselining.
• Support compliance requirements (e.g. audit readiness, logging, monitoring, and access controls).
• Work closely with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and risks.
• Operations & Reliability
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost using CloudWatch, AWS Config, and third-party monitoring tools.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Participate in on-call or operational support rotations where required.
• Cost Management & Optimization
• Monitor and optimize AWS usage and costs using cost allocation tags, budgets, and cost-explorer tools.
• Recommend right-sizing, reserved instances, savings plans, and architectural improvements to reduce spend.
• Provide cost transparency and reporting to stakeholders.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
• Work closely with application teams, DevOps, security, and architecture teams.
• Provide cloud engineering support to developers and solution architects.
• Contribute to cloud standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Produce clear documentation and knowledge-sharing material.
• Required Skills & Experience
• Technical Skills
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Solid understanding of:
• Compute (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda)
• Networking (VPC, routing, load balancers, DNS)
• Storage (S3, EBS, EFS)
• Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK).
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems.
• Scripting experience (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CodePipeline).
• Cloud & Engineering Concepts
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles.
• Knowledge of high-availability, scalability, and fault-tolerant design.
• Experience supporting production environments.
• Understanding of DevOps and SRE practices.
• Education
• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

Benefits

Additional Information

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. Job Description

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