Data Operations Engineer
Boardroom AppointmentsCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Posted January 5, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Boardroom Appointments, founded in 1989, is a global talent solutions provider delivering recruitment, contract staffing, project staffing, temporary employment, training, HR consultancy, and expatriate mobility services across Africa, EMEA, the Americas, and Europe. Leveraging a deep industry focus that spans FMCG, finance, manufacturing, oil & gas, healthcare, logistics, IT, renewable energy, retail, agriculture, government, and call‑center services, the firm custom‑builds solutions that match each client’s unique talent needs. With a worldwide candidate database and a team of seasoned recruitment and HR professionals, Boardroom Appointments offers end‑to‑end services—from executive search and people analytics to payroll outsourcing and workforce management—ensuring seamless, high‑quality placements that let clients concentrate on their core business. Their distinctive value lies in a partnership model that blends industry expertise, data‑driven insights, and a culture of passion and professionalism to deliver flawless, long‑lasting results.
Job Description
Data Operations Engineer position requires experience with large volumes of structured and unstructured data, AWS knowledge, and data engineering skills.
Requirements
- Undertake the processing of structured and unstructured data to utilize in data science activities.
- Support the data analysis of large information to discover trends and patterns and provide feedback to the business.
- Assist in designing and implementing scalable and robust processes for ingesting and transforming datasets.
- Design, implement, and support the creation and maintenance of data pipelines from a multitude of sources.
- Ingest large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Request For Change (RFC) management in Amazon Managed Services (AMS) (logging, escalation, resolution)
- Provisioning infrastructure in AWS (via RFC process, CloudFormation, Console)
- AWS Security Management (authoring IAM security policies, logging security requests, user management/permissions)
- Infrastructure As Code (development of CloudFormation templates)
- Development, deployment, and management of CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment ) pipelines.
- Linux and Windows System Administration within AWS (SSH, RDP).
- Design and build bulk and delta data lift patterns for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
- Supports the organisations cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including the implementation of these data governance practices.
- Work with various stakeholders across the organization to understand data requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
- Provide support in the operational environment with all relevant support teams for data services.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance