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DevOps Engineer – Cloud Automation & AI Innovation
Priority Pass · Métropole du Cap
Job description
About the role
You will be a key contributor to building and maintaining a zero‑downtime, cloud‑native platform. Working on a greenfield initiative, you will leverage modern infrastructure and automation tools to support engineering teams while exploring AI‑driven DevOps solutions.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimise AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, secure, and seamless deployments.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience of the platform using managed services.
- Implement proactive observability with DataDog and related tools to monitor health, performance, and security.
- Apply cloud security best practices, including patching, encryption, secrets management, and IAM.
- Continuously improve DevOps processes and contribute innovative ideas.
- Explore and embed AI technologies into DevOps workflows.
Required profile
- Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and IaC principles.
- Proven expertise in the AWS ecosystem (EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS/Aurora) and networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, API Gateway, load balancing, WAF).
- Comfortable with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio, and deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary.
- Familiarity with cloud security services (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector) and vulnerability management/patching.
- Observability mindset with experience using DataDog or similar tools.
- Experience in embedding AI into DevOps processes is a plus.
Required skills
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Helm
- Python
- Bash
- AWS (EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS/Aurora)
- Linux
- GitHub Actions
- VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, API Gateway, Load Balancing, WAF
- Secrets Manager, IAM, KMS
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- Istio
- Blue/Green Deployments
- Canary Deployments
- DataDog
- Security Hub
- GuardDuty
- Inspector
- Vulnerability Management
- Patching
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