Senior DevOps Engineer

Essential Experience

• 7+ years hands-on experience in a DevOps or SRE role, with a clear weighting toward DevOps engineering, automation, and CI/CD delivery.
• Hands-on experience in AWS environment, preferably in financial services with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Demonstrable track record implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas of a delivery organisation.
• Strong AWS workload automation experience covering infrastructure provisioning and software configuration rollout.
• Practical experience implementing observability for hybrid and cloud-based environments.
• Strong working knowledge of networking principles and protocols.
• Working understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how to apply it in practice.

Advantageous Experience

• Demonstrable experience with Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices in production environments.
• Troubleshooting low-latency, Java-based applications in an SRE context and infrastructure-level performance investigation.
• Experience operating inside an audit-heavy regulated environment beyond PCI-DSS change control, evidence capture, segregation of duties.

Ways of Working

• A hands-on engineer at heart most effective when the work is in pipelines, code, and configuration rather than in process documents.
• Pragmatic about automation automates what matters, leaves what doesn't, and knows the difference.
• Strong collaborator across engineering, security, and operations, with the ability to translate technical decisions into language non-engineers can act on.
• Holds the line on operational and security discipline without becoming a blocker to delivery.

Other InformationTechnology and Tooling

Essential

• AWS Services: EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog.
• AWS CDK.
• Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk or AppDynamics, ELK.
• CI/CD platforms (Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or equivalent).
• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server.

Preferred

• Python scripting.
• AWS CloudFormation.
• Ansible
• Bash scripting.

Optional

• Zabbix monitoring.
• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• WebLogic 14c.
• Nginx

Pay: R65 000,00 - R75 000,00 per month

Experience:

• AWS Services EC2, RDS EBS, EKS, ECS: 6 years (Required)
• CI/CD platforms (Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab: 4 years (Required)
• Python Scripting: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Johannesburg, Gauteng