DevOps engineer

Job Description

We are urgently looking for a DevOps engineer for Standard bank. The person will be expected to work on a hybrid basis, going in 2x a week to the Rosebank office in JHB (sometimes Simmonds street but not often). The client is moving towards full time back in office at some point, so I just want to be fully transparent about this upfront.

Culture fit is extremely important for the hiring manager. He is looking for someone vibrant, with a great positive attitude as the team is very friendly and upbeat so they need someone who would fit in well.

The rate is between R 90k - R 100k.

Since this is a hybrid role, the person is expected to live and work in JHB.

Experience

• Hands‑on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI‑DSS compliant systems.
• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout).
• Implementing observability for hybrid cloud-based environments.
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols.
• Troubleshooting low latency & Java‑based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context.
• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices.

Understanding of the AWS Well‑Architected Framework and practices.

Requirements

Technology & tooling

Mandatory

• AWS Services (EC2, RDS – Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)
• AWS CDK
• Observability tooling – AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• CI/CD platforms (e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)
• Operating Systems – Linux and Windows server

Preferred

• Python scripting
• AWS CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash scripting

Optional

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

Personal Attributes

• Willingness to engage
• Curiosity
• Sound communication skills
• Ability to self‑direct

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS CloudOps Engineer
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate