Cloud & DevOps Engineer (AWS)

About the Role

Peppermint Bizmoto is looking for a Cloud & DevOps Engineer to manage and continuously improve our AWS infrastructure supporting our payment platforms, including InstaPay and QRPH P2M services.

You will be responsible for ensuring our production systems remain secure, highly available, scalable, and reliable while supporting application deployments, monitoring, troubleshooting, and infrastructure improvements.

This role works closely with Engineering, QA, Operations, and external technology partners.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure

• Manage and maintain AWS production and UAT environments.

• Provision and manage EC2, VPC, Load Balancers, Security Groups, IAM, Route 53, RDS, Redis, S3, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and related AWS services.

• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and utilization.

• Implement high availability and disaster recovery best practices.

DevOps

• Support application deployments across development, UAT, and production environments.

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines where applicable.

• Assist developers in troubleshooting deployment and infrastructure issues.

• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks whenever possible.

Monitoring & Performance

• Monitor application and infrastructure performance.

• Analyze CPU, memory, storage, database, and network utilization.

• Support load testing and performance tuning activities.

• Investigate production incidents and recommend improvements.

Security

• Implement AWS security best practices.

• Manage IAM users, roles, and permissions.

• Maintain SSL certificates, security groups, and network access controls.

• Support vulnerability remediation and infrastructure hardening.

Database & Middleware Support

• Support RDS administration.

• Support Redis and caching infrastructure.

• Monitor backups and recovery processes.

Production Support

• Participate in production deployments.

• Support critical payment systems during implementation and go-live activities.

• Assist with troubleshooting production issues involving cloud infrastructure.

Documentation

• Maintain infrastructure documentation.

• Maintain architecture diagrams.

• Document operational procedures and deployment guides.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

• At least 3 years of experience managing AWS environments.

• Strong understanding of Linux administration.

• Experience supporting production applications.

• Experience with cloud monitoring and troubleshooting.

Required Technical Skills

AWS

• EC2

• VPC

• IAM

• RDS

• S3

• CloudWatch

• Route 53

• Load Balancer

• Auto Scaling

• Security Groups

Operating Systems

• Linux (Ubuntu preferred)

• Windows Server (basic knowledge)

Databases

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL (advantage)

• Redis

Networking

• TCP/IP

• DNS

• VPN

• SSL Certificates

• Firewalls

• Routing

DevOps Tools

• Git

• Docker

• CI/CD

• Bash scripting

Nice to Have

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification

• Experience supporting financial systems

• Experience with payment gateways

• Experience with container technologies

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience using monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog