Standard Bank Group

Financial Services

SeniorEngineer,Cloud,AWS

$750–1100k ~AI est. Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Engineer, Cloud, AWS at Standard Bank Group. Skills: AWS, Cloud platform engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code. Be AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert. Ensure AWS cloud environment evolves to best practice”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Examining Information; Making Decisions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8-10 years Integration and IT background, 8-10 years full lifecycle design and development, Experience working on AWS cloud platform engineering, Experience deploying and supporting workloads on AWS, AWS enterprise-scale landing zones, AWS Control Tower implementations, Practical experience designing multi-account AWS environments, Experience implementing platform-level IAM, Experience implementing permission boundaries, Experience implementing SCP frameworks, Experience implementing preventative controls, Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, Experience managing shared platform services, Ability to interpret architectural standards, Proven leadership and people-management capability

Nice to Have

AWS and/or Azure cloud environment experience, AWS and/or Azure managed services experience, Experience with AWS networking concepts, Experience with VPC design, Experience with Transit Gateways, Experience with Direct Connect, Experience with Direct Connect Gateway, Experience with hybrid connectivity patterns, Experience with governance guardrails, Experience with account vending pipelines, Experience with EKS, Experience with API Gateway, Experience with service mesh, Experience with secrets management, Experience with centralized observability tooling

What You'll Do.

Be AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert

Ensure AWS cloud environment evolves to best practice

Adopt new AWS features at scale

Enable feature teams to deploy solutions

Be service owner for core AWS platform enablement

Ensure services are compliant to SBG standards

Consult with application teams

Consult with product owners

Partner with AWS architecture team

Engage with AWS enterprise support

Partner with AWS product team

Collaborate across countries

Collaborate across business units

Collaborate across feature teams

Engage with Platform leads

Engage with security leads

Report to relevant forums

Build relationships with 3rd party providers

Manage delivery with 3rd party providers

Manage SLAs with 3rd party providers

Mentor junior cloud engineers

Coordinate engineers on delivery

Guide engineers on delivery

Provide coaching to team

Provide mentoring to team

Develop knowledge sharing plans

Showcase new features

Showcase new services

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Feature teams; Application teams; Peers; Platform leads; Security leads; 3rd party providers; Junior cloud engineers

Communication Scope

Articulating Information; Challenging Ideas; Interacting with People

Process & Methodology

Agile, Lean frameworks

Full Job Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. To be the AWS cloud engineering subject matter expert across multiple cloud capabilities linked to AWS platform engineering, including AI, DevOps, Compute, networking and databases. The individual will also ensure that the Standard Bank AWS cloud environment is continuously evolving to best practice, adopting new AWS features at scale and enabling feature teams to deploy innovative solutions for our customers. The AWS senior cloud engineer will also be the service owner for core AWS platform enablement capabilities, ensuring our services are compliant to SBG standards, principles, policies, and regulatory obligations in a manner that enables our business strategy. The AWS senior cloud engineer will also be consulting partner for our application teams that have deployed workloads in cloud and also to product owners across the organization. The role includes partnering and engage proactively with AWS architecture team, AWS enterprise support and the AWS product team/ services team to ensure we keep up with new AWS features and service launches, while continuously improving and evolving existing AWS services. The role also involves collaborating and operating across several countries, business units and feature teams across the Standard Bank Group. The AWS senior cloud engineer will be required to proactively engage with peers (including the Platform and security leads), internal stakeholders a

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