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Site Reliability Engineer (Expert) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB1700630

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Midrand - South Africa

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Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will join our clients 25-member engineering team focused on driving reliability and operational excellence across our platform.

You will play a critical role shaping our observability strategy implementing automation at scale and developing tools to boost engineering productivity.

Your work will directly impact the reliability and scalability of systems used by thousands of users worldwide.


Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
High work-life balance with Flexible hours
Agile working environment

POSITION: Contract until December 2027

EXPERIENCE: 8 Years related working experience

COMMENCEMENT: 01 August 2025

Qualifications / Experience Required:

  • IT Degree and/or relevant qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer DevOps engineer or similar role preferably in a technology-driven environment

Essential Skills Requirements:

  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals

  • Skilled with AWS

  • Proficiency in at least one programming language: Python Go or JavaScript/TypeScript

  • Understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration principles

  • Experience with monitoring and alerting systems

  • Understanding of CI/CD principles

  • Version control with Git

  • Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Advantageous Skills Requirements:

  • Advanced Kubernetes knowledge and certification (CKA/CKAD)

  • Experience with the complete Grafana stack (Grafana Loki Tempo)

  • Proficiency with GitOps tools (Flux ArgoCD)

  • Advanced programming skills in Go or TypeScript

  • Knowledge of Terraform

  • Database experience with PostgreSQL MongoDB

  • Multi-environment infrastructure management

  • Infrastructure testing methodologies

  • Experience leading major incident response

  • Implementation of SRE practices at scale

  • Performance optimization experience

  • Capacity planning and load testing

  • Experience with cost optimization

  • Security hardening and compliance implementation

Role and Responsibilities:

Core responsibilities include:

  • Designing and implementing robust scalable infrastructure solutions for system reliability

  • Architecting and maintaining comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions

  • Creating automated workflows to minimize toil and human error

  • Leading incident response efforts and driving continuous improvements

  • Providing technical leadership and mentoring team members

  • Building internal tools that enhance operational efficiency

  • Collaborating closely with development teams to improve service reliability

  • Establishing and enforcing SRE best practices across the organization

Daily technologies and focus areas:

  • Containerization: Kubernetes Docker

  • Observability: Grafana Stack Prometheus

  • GitOps: Flux ArgoCD

  • CI/CD: Modern pipeline tools

  • Cloud-native infrastructure

  • Programming languages: Go Python TypeScript/JavaScript

  • Microservices architecture

  • Multi-region deployments with high availability requirements

  • Managing complex dependencies

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Candidates MUST be based in Gauteng or WILLING TO RELOCATE!

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iSanqa is your trusted Level 2 BEE recruitment partner dedicated to continuous improvement in delivering exceptional service. Specializing in seamless placements for permanent staff temporary resources and efficient contract management and billing facilitation iSanqa Resourcing is powered by a team of professionals with an outstanding track record. With over 100 years of combined experience we are committed to evolving our practices to ensure ongoing excellence.

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