Infrastructure Engineer (Senior)

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Backend-focused DevOps professional to join a high-performing product team delivering compliant scalable and highly available digital solutions. The role focuses on building operating and improving backend systems within an agile cloud-native DevOps environment with exposure to full-stack development.

Key Responsibilities

Participate in system analysis solution design development testing and deployment within an Agile/DevOps model
Design build deploy and operate backend services using Java and modern frameworks
Contribute to frontend development where required working with Angular-based applications
Implement automated unit and integration tests to ensure quality and reliability
Support production systems as part of a Tier-3 DevOps operational support role
Troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents to ensure high availability of critical systems
Plan and execute upgrades to applications tools and platforms
Create and maintain system documentation standard operating procedures and technical artifacts
Build cloud-native solutions to support scalability resilience and business agility

Requirements

Essential Skills & Experience

DevOps & Operations: Production support incident resolution system reliability
Backend Development:

Java
Quarkus framework
API design and integration
Messaging frameworks (JMS Kafka)

Databases: PostgreSQL strong SQL skills
Testing: JUnit or similar unit testing frameworks
Containers: Docker (building and running container images)
Version Control: Git (GitHub Enterprise)
CI/CD: Build and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
Build Tools: Maven

Advantageous Skills

Cloud platforms: AWS or Azure
Frontend technologies: Angular HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript
Familiarity with frontend frameworks and libraries (e.g. Angular ecosystem jQuery)
UX awareness and experience working with Figma

Qualifications

Relevant IT Degree or equivalent experience
5 years experience in a mid-to-senior technical role
7 years total professional IT experience

Required Skills:

DevOps Java Quarkus Kafka PostgreSQL Junit Docker

Key Responsibilities

Participate in system analysis solution design development testing and deployment within an Agile/DevOps model
Design build deploy and operate backend services using Java and modern frameworks
Contribute to frontend development where required working with Angular-based applications
Implement automated unit and integration tests to ensure quality and reliability
Support production systems as part of a Tier-3 DevOps operational support role
Troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents to ensure high availability of critical systems
Plan and execute upgrades to applications tools and platforms
Create and maintain system documentation standard operating procedures and technical artifacts
Build cloud-native solutions to support scalability resilience and business agility

Requirements

Essential Skills & Experience

DevOps & Operations: Production support incident resolution system reliability
Backend Development:

Java
Quarkus framework
API design and integration
Messaging frameworks (JMS Kafka)

Databases: PostgreSQL strong SQL skills
Testing: JUnit or similar unit testing frameworks
Containers: Docker (building and running container images)
Version Control: Git (GitHub Enterprise)
CI/CD: Build and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
Build Tools: Maven

Advantageous Skills

Cloud platforms: AWS or Azure
Frontend technologies: Angular HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript
Familiarity with frontend frameworks and libraries (e.g. Angular ecosystem jQuery)
UX awareness and experience working with Figma

Qualifications