# AWS DevOps & Platform Engineering Lead

The Role This is not a DevOps role where you sit on the sidelines reviewing architecture diagrams. You’ll be leading the AWS DevOps and platform engineering capability while staying firmly hands-on. Around half your time will be spent in engineering delivery across AWS environments, migrations, modernisation projects and managed services. The other half will focus on leading and developing the DevOps team, owning delivery standards, supporting customers and making sure the work gets done properly. You’ll be responsible for the technical direction of the team, but you’ll still be expected to design solutions, review code, solve complex production issues and step into high-pressure incidents when needed. The environment suits someone who enjoys both the technical and leadership sides of the job and does not want to choose between the two. Core tech: AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Linux, Python/Bash, CloudWatch and CloudTrail. Responsibilities Lead and develop the DevOps engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management and day-to-day work allocation. Mentor engineers through technical review

- **Id**: 4068414
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datatech-recruitment-aws-devops-platform-engineering-lead>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T11:52:44Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:52:44Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5870
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4533131
- **Name**: DataTech Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datatech-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Checkov** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **tfsec** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:26:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T14:16:25Z

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