Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS Focus)

We’re looking for a Consulting DevOps Engineer (AWS) to join our Ghana team. This is a highly customer-facing role where you’ll act as a trusted technical advisor and hands-on builder. You’ll work directly with engineering teams, CTOs, and technical stakeholders to architect, implement, and optimize AWS environments that are secure, resilient, and cost-efficient.

You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure while collaborating closely with internal teams and external clients to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Customer-Facing Consulting

• Serve as a technical consultant during customer engagements and architecture discussions
• Provide clear solution design guidance and prevent technical misalignment
• Translate complex cloud concepts into practical implementation strategies

Cloud Infrastructure Design & Management

• Architect and manage complex, highly secured AWS environments
• Design multi-AZ VPC architectures, Transit Gateway routing, VPC peering, and hybrid connectivity (Site-to-Site VPN)
• Implement high availability and multi-region HADR patterns

Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Lead and execute cloud migration strategies including lift-and-shift using AWS MGN
• Perform database migrations using AWS DMS with minimal downtime
• Support modernization initiatives beyond simple infrastructure replication

Automation & CI/CD

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
• Configure pipelines using IAM role assumption best practices
• Deploy and manage private EKS clusters without exposing the Kubernetes API server

Security, Compliance & Risk Management

• Implement strong IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, and Secrets Manager configurations
• Support compliance requirements (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR) across industries
• Design architectures with security, risk mitigation, and regulatory requirements in mind

Observability & Performance

• Implement advanced monitoring and observability solutions using CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK/OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Optimize system reliability, performance, and incident response visibility

Cost Optimization

• Proactively identify and remediate cost inefficiencies
• Optimize compute, storage (e.g., RDS), and networking configurations
• Balance cost, performance, compliance, and scalability

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of deep, hands-on AWS experience across services such as EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and networking
• Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform required; Terragrunt preferred)
• Advanced Kubernetes knowledge (EKS, Helm, autoscaling, private clusters, kubectl operations)
• Experience designing and implementing complex AWS networking architectures (VPC peering, VPN, route tables, security groups, NACLs)
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS migration tools (DMS, MGN)
• Strong security and compliance knowledge (IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, GDPR, multi-region design patterns)
• Advanced observability experience (CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK/OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong architectural thinking and problem-solving ability
• Ability to make sound decisions with limited information
• Strong understanding of integration, networking, and secure system design principles
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to think in terms of risk, performance, compliance, and scale
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)

Benefits

• Work on high-impact, multi-industry cloud transformation projects.
• Collaborate with experienced cloud architects and AWS specialists.
• Grow your consulting and customer leadership skills.
• Exposure to global clients and complex cloud environments
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Career growth within a fast-growing cloud-native consulting firm.