DevOps engineer

Blue Pearl PTY; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,004,400 - 1,116,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Johannesburg urgently seeks a DevOps engineer for a hybrid role. The candidate will be expected to work in the Rosebank office twice a week. Key qualifications include hands-on experience with AWS services and strong abilities in CI/CD pipeline automation. A vibrant personality and positive attitude are crucial for fitting into the friendly team culture. The salary range is between R 90k and R 100k, with aims for eventual full-time office attendance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment, preferably in the financial sector.
• Strong understanding of PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Experience in troubleshooting low latency applications in a Site Reliability Engineering context.

Responsibilities

• Implement CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
• Automate AWS workloads including provisioning infrastructure.
• Implement observability for cloud-based environments.

Skills

AWS Services

Linux

Java

Observability tooling

Networking principles

CI/CD pipeline automation

Job description

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 02/20/2026

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). 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 an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context.
• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices.

Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices.

Requirements

Mandatory

• AWS Services (EC2, RDS - Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)
• Observability tooling - AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• Operating Systems - Linux and Windows server