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We deliver comprehensive credit research, risk analytics, and portfolio monitoring tools to asset managers, banks, insurers, and other financial institutions globally.\nAs part of Morningstar Credit Analytics, we combine deep credit expertise with cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems in fixed income and credit markets. Our platform helps clients analyse credit risk, monitor portfolios, and make more informed investment decisions across corporate bonds, structured products, and other credit instruments.\nThe Role \nWe're looking for a hands-on infrastructure engineer to join our core platform team. You’ll be the go-to person for our infrastructure, security, recovery, and provisioning. You’ll have significant impact on our strategy, recommending and executing initiatives to enable sustainable operations alongside our existing dev ops specialists and our core platform team.\nOur infrastructure is primarily in AWS, CI/CD is via Bitbucket pipelines and Octopus deploy. We provision with infrastructure-as-code via Terraform.\nOur teams value and enjoy clarity in the vision of the company and appreciate the autonomy and trust they have in executing against it within each team.\nAs a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll take responsibility for technical direction and execution.\nYou will: \nContribute to architecture, helping shape systems, patterns, and technical decisions.\n\nPropose, prioritise and carry out initiatives to improve our infrastructure.\n\nLead through influence by mentoring others, raising standards, and unblocking challenges.\n\nAnticipate risks and design solutions that scale with product and business needs.\n\nHandle compliance checklists and requests.\n\nBalance our infrastructure costs against foreseeable risks.\n\nImprove our monitoring and observability.\n\nKeep our infrastructure and tools ecosystem well secured over time.\n\nYou’ll thrive in this role if you: \nEnjoy means owning outcomes, improving the system around you, and enabling others to deliver at a higher level.\n\nAre genuinely passionate about technology and committed to continuous learning.\n\nTake strong ownership of your work, follow through, and hold yourself accountable for outcomes.\n\nBring positive energy and enjoy collaborating closely with others.\n\nHave experience working with medium-scale infrastructure for teams of engineers.\n\nCommunicate clearly and effectively with your peers, both written and verbal.\n\nDo your best work in an environment built on trust, autonomy, and minimal micromanagement.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring: \nCore Infrastructure & AWS\nDeep cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) experience (5+ years) with production workloads at scale.\n\nAWS certification is beneficial, especially if direct AWS experience is less than 5 years.\n\n2+ years Kubernetes experience - EKS and ECS in day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, scaling strategies.\n\nVPC networking, security groups, routing, gateways, IP subsets - can design and troubleshoot network architectures.\n\nIAM policies and AWS security best practices - principle of least privilege, cross-account access.\n\nExperience with High Availability & Disaster Recovery strategy and implementation.\n\nSecurity & Compliance\nSecurity-first mindset - understands attack vectors, defence in depth.\n\nExperience with compliance frameworks.\n\nCan work with auditors and provide evidence for controls.\n\nAble to produce fit-for-purpose documentation of the infrastructure.\n\nWe value depth but also appreciate engineers who can work effectively across the stack.\nWhat Will Help You Stand Out: \nExperience owning or operating production systems.\n\nExperience supporting production infrastructure.\n\nExperience building and running containerised applications.\n\nExperience supporting live systems, including incident response, and performance tuning.\n\nExperience with RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, S3, operational experience with managed services.\n\nCompensation and Benefits \nAt Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life.\nCompensation & Financial Wellbeing\nWe support your long-term financial security and reward the impact you make. We offer opportunities for equity participation and shared ownership. Life Insurance, Disability Cover and Retirement Contributions.\nHealth and Wellness\nYour wellbeing matters! We provide strong support for both physical and mental health. Medical Aid, Vitality, Gap Cover for you and your family.\nTime Off and Life\nWe believe sustainable performance comes from balance, rest, and support through life’s moments. 20 days paid time off, 5-week paid Sabbatical after 4 years, family, parental, and compassionate leave support.\nLearning, Growth & Career Development\nWe invest in continuous learning and long-term career development.\nBase Salary: ZAR 800,000.00 - 1,000,000.00\nTarget Bonus: 12.5%\nIf you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentially to our Compliance team. These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.\nMorningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. 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