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.
