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.