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Senior devops engineer - centurion or rosebank (hybrid) - r1.2m pa

An exciting opportunity has become available for a

Senior Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Sec Ops practices, including vulnerability management, patching, intrusion detection/prevention, and secure configuration.

Relevant tertiary qualification (advantageous)

7+ years' experience in Dev Ops, 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 (Git Lab CI, Git Hub 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 (My SQL/Postgres)

Messaging systems (Rabbit MQ, 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 Dev Ops 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

(email protected)

or call him on

011 463 3633

to discuss this and other opportunities.

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