AWS Data Engineer

A world leader in premium manufacturing, known for innovation, cutting-edge technology, and sustainability, is looking for an experienced AWS data engineer to join our team and play a key role in managing and optimising our data infrastructure in the cloud. In this position, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and ensuring the efficient storage, processing, and retrieval of data on the AWS cloud platform.
 
What you need to grab the role:

• Candidates with one or more of the certifications are preferred
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified SysOps Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Architect Associate, AWS Certified Architect Professional, Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
• Terraform; Python 3x; SQL - Oracle/PostgreSQL; Py Spark
• Boto3; ETL; Docker; Linux / Unix; Big Data; Powershell / Bash
• Cloud Data Hub (CDH)
• CDEC Blueprint
• Glue; CloudWatch; SNS; Athena; S3
• Kinesis Streams (Kinesis, Kinesis Firehose)
• Lambda; DynamoDB; Step Function; Param Store; Secrets Manager
• Code Build/Pipeline; CloudFormation
• Business Intelligence (BI) Experience
• Technical data modelling and schema design (“not drag and drop”)
• Kafka ; AWS EMR; Redshift

What you will be doing:

• Data engineers are responsible for building and maintaining Big Data Pipelines using Data Platforms
• Data engineers are custodians of data and must ensure that data is shared in line with the information classification requirements on a need-to-know basis
• Stay up to date with the latest data engineering tools, technologies and industry trends. Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation to enhance the efficiency and reliability of data pipelines

Reference number for this position is GZ60223, which is a contract position based in Midrand OR Centurion and semi-remote- Remote offering a contract rate of R650 PH, negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 03 Mar 15:00, Closing date 2 May