Role Description
Afritec Pay is a mobile money company focused on providing innovative, secure, and accessible financial services to customers nationally. Our mission is to revolutionise the way people transact, make payments, and send money by leveraging cutting-edge mobile technology. We are establishing a dedicated implementation, quality assurance, and cloud engineering capability to deliver and operate our wallet.
Afritec Pay is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to own the design, security, automation, and operation of a highly available AWS cloud infrastructure supporting our Wallet platform and its production workloads. Reporting to the Afritec Group IT Manager, the role calls for a hands-on engineer who can take full ownership of a live production environment, from deployment through post-go-live stabilisation.
Responsibilities
- Designs, provisions and maintains core AWS infrastructure across EC2, EKS, ALB, RDS, S3, and Lambda, built for scalability, redundancy and high availability.
- Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines, applying GitOps and DevSecOps practices, and owns AWS deployment through to production readiness.
- Implements and maintains cloud security controls and 24×7 monitoring, and drives continuous performance, cost, and reliability improvements.
Role Requirements
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field from a recognised university.
Role-specific knowledge
- 3 – 7 years’ proven experience in AWS cloud infrastructure and production operations, including demonstrable hands-on ownership of live AWS production workloads.
- Strong skills across EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Linux administration, and cloud security.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Developer, or SysOps Administrator) preferred but not mandatory.