Job Vacancies at The Shoprite Group of Comapanies

Job Objectives    

• Implementation, administration, optimisation and maintenance on the AWS platform
• Troubleshooting of AWS outages and performance issues
• Analysing and implementing of cost saving solutions, security remediation tools and monitoring.
• Interact with other teams to implement systems and solutions following the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS best practices.
• Scripting and automation
• To implement and assist with Disaster Recovery management, procedures & documentation
• Network configuration, subnetting, routing (intra / inter account and VPN)

Qualifications    

• Grade 12
• 5-10 Years Industry Certification: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer): Infrastructure Engineer
• 3-5 Years Industry Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Experience    

• 3-4 Years Extensive experience with core AWS Services including but not limited to: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch WAF, EFS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, IAM, Athena, Glacier, KMS, Organizations, API Gateway, Trusted Advisor, Guard Duty, Config, Systems Manager, Route 53, Certificate Manager
• 3-4 Years Experience with other AWS Services including: Athena, EMR, Service Catalog, Control Tower, EKS, ECS, Cognito, Resource Access Manager, Directory Service
• 1-2 Years Experience with AWS DevOps
• 5-10 Years Extensive experience with Microsoft Windows Server
• 5-10 Extensive experience with core Microsoft Windows roles and features
• 3-5 Years Experience with Linux
• 5-10 years Extensive experience with Microsoft Active Directory Domain
• 3-5 Years Experience with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services
• 5-10 Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting
• 3-5 Years Experience in documenting environments and processes

Knowledge and Skills    
JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE

• 3-5 Years Understanding of the concepts of "cloud"
• 3-5 Years Understanding of AWS Well Architected Framework
• 3-5 Years Understanding of AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• 5-10 Years Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and its components (DNS, DHCP, Group Policy etc) fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of virtualisation technologies fundamentals and concepts
• 5-10 Years Understanding of network and storage principles?
• 3-5 Years Understanding of Linux fundamentals and concepts

JOB RELATED SKILLS

• 5-10 Years In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server architecture design and implementation
• 3-5 Years Strong knowledge in AWS Solutions Architecture and implementation
• 1-2 Years Knowledge in AWS DevOps including pipelines, etc.
• 3-5 Years Scripting experience, specifically with CloudFormation and JSON scripting
• 5-10 Years Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS protocols, firewall, basic routing, load-balancing technologies and firewalls.