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 Sign in to view email or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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