Senior DevOps Engineer Centurion or Rosebank (Hybrid) R1.2m PA

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a forward-thinking technology team that is passionate about building secure scalable and highly available cloud platforms. If you thrive in a collaborative DevOps environment enjoy automating infrastructure and have a passion for cloud technologies this role offers the chance to work with modern tools and best practices while making a real impact on mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Build operate and improve cloud infrastructure across environments (production staging development) as part of a collaborative DevOps team
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code CI/CD pipelines and automation to improve reliability and delivery speed
• Monitor secure and optimise cloud platforms ensuring performance availability and recoverability
• Proactively improve monitoring alerting and observability and contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Support redundancy failover backup and disaster recovery mechanisms in line with business RTOs and RPOs.
• Collaborate closely with our internal security team and apply DevSecOps practices including vulnerability management patching intrusion detection/prevention and secure configuration.

Relevant tertiary qualification (advantageous):

• 7 years experience in DevOps Cloud Infrastructure or Systems Engineering
• Strong experience with AWS (Azure or GCP exposure is beneficial)
• Solid Linux administration experience in production environments

Proven experience with:

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• Containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes Argo CD) CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins)
• Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus Grafana ELK Loki)
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible Puppet or Chef)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python Bash or Ruby)

Understanding of core infrastructure components:

• Web servers (NGINX Apache)
• Databases (MySQL/Postgres)
• Messaging systems (RabbitMQ Beanstalkd)
• Networking (DNS load balancing firewalls proxies)
• Experience supporting secure and compliant environments. Exposure to PCI-DSS and/or ISO27001 is advantageous.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and DevOps culture
• Experience working in Fintech Technology or other high-growth environments

Reference Number for this position is GZ61454 which is a permanent position based in Centurion or Rosebank offering a cost to company salary of R1.2m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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