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Hybrid DevOps Engineer - AWS, CI/CD & SRE

Summary

Build and maintain AWS-based CI/CD pipelines and SRE practices for a South African bank, automating cloud infrastructure and observability tooling.

Job Description

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

Job Description

We are urgently looking for a DevOps engineer for Standard bank. The person will be expected to work on a hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the Rosebank office in JHB ( sometimes Simmonds street but not often) BUT 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 90 k – R 100k.

Details of the spec below.

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

Please do let me know if you currently have any available resources.

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

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