DevOps Engineer - JHB / PTA / CPT

Our client is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing technology environment. This intermediate-to-senior opportunity is ideal for a technically versatile professional with strong cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and operational support experience, who can help improve the reliability and efficiency of software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Work with pipelines-as-code and tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Deploy and automate application updates, fixes and releases across environments.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support containerised workloads across serverless and container orchestration platforms.
• Provide Level 2 technical support for operational and delivery-related issues.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement lasting solutions.
• Troubleshoot availability, performance and capacity challenges.
• Develop scripts, automation tools, reports and visualisation solutions.
• Implement configuration management and automation practices.
• Support monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across infrastructure and application layers.
• Manage database scripting for extracts, fixes and deployments.
• Develop and maintain procedures for system troubleshooting, maintenance and operational support.
• Apply shift-left security principles throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc degree or equivalent qualification.
• At least 4 years' relevant DevOps or cloud engineering experience.
• Proven experience implementing CI/CD and release automation.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with serverless and/or Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and operational support.
• Experience administering servers, software and shared application environments.
• Ability to investigate and resolve availability, performance and capacity issues.
• Strong scripting and software development capability.
• Development experience, particularly Java or .NET, would be advantageous.
• Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt.
• Strong incident investigation and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous Experience

• Exposure to both AWS and Azure.
• Experience with AI platform and MLOps technologies such as KServe, inference gateways, Istio, MCP, agent runtimes and MLflow.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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