Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer builds and maintains secure, scalable cloud platforms using AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines while automating infrastructure and monitoring systems.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Senior DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management, patching, intrusion detection/prevention, and secure configuration.
Relevant tertiary qualification (advantageous):
- 7+ years' experience in DevOps, 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 (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Monitoring and 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 (MySQL/Postgres)
- Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, 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 DevOps 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 garthz@e-merge.co.za or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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