DevOps Engineer

Travelbyinvestec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec describes a Senior DevOps Engineer role within the Client Technology division, focusing on building reliable, secure, scalable platforms through automation and governance in a regulated financial services environment.

The role emphasizes SRE, observability, Azure cloud engineering, and platform governance, requiring strong CI/CD, IaC, and security practices across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or related disciplines.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Improve platform reliability, availability and performance using SRE principles.
• Lead incident response for critical production incidents with RCA and preventative actions.
• Design fault-tolerant architectures, DR capabilities and resilience strategies.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, documentation and recovery procedures.
• Embed governance, security and compliance into platform engineering practices.

Skills

SRE & Platform engineering

Azure cloud

CI/CD automation

Infrastructure as code

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

Azure tooling

Job description

Description

Investec is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Client Technology division. This individual will play a pivotal role in advancing our DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability and cloud platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for building reliable, secure, scalable, and compliant platforms through automation, engineering excellence, and governance. They will enable modern software delivery practices, improve operational resilience, govern enterprise Power Platform environments, and support the broader platform engineering strategy within a highly regulated financial services environment.

Site Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence

• Improve platform reliability, availability and performance through best-practice SRE principles.
• Lead incident response for critical production incidents, including root cause analysis and preventative action planning.
• Develop fault-tolerant architectures, disaster recovery capabilities and resilience strategies.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, support documentation and recovery procedures.
• Perform capacity planning, forecasting and performance optimisation activities.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve production readiness and operational excellence.

Observability, Monitoring & Insights

• Design and implement enterprise monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Analyse platform telemetry and system metrics to proactively identify trends and risks.
• Optimise alerting frameworks to reduce noise and improve incident response effectiveness.
• Implement comprehensive observability practices across cloud and business-critical platforms

Azure Cloud Engineering & Security

• Provision and manage Azure services using Infrastructure as Code approaches.
• Implement secure cloud patterns using Managed Identities, Azure AD, Service Principals and Azure Key Vault.
• Support Azure integration capabilities and enterprise platform services.
• Design and maintain secure networking architectures and connectivity patterns.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements and compliance controls.
• Embed security, governance and compliance into platform engineering practices.

Platform Governance & Compliance

• Drive enterprise governance standards across cloud and low-code platforms.
• Define and enforce:
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies
  • Environment management standards
  • Solution lifecycle governance
  • Role-based access controls
  • Platform operating models
• Monitor platform usage, licensing and operational health.
• Support audit, risk and compliance activities.
• Ensure adherence to financial services regulatory requirements and organisational controls.

Experience, skill and capability

• 8+ years' experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or related disciplines.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD, automation and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security and platform operations.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and operational resilience practices.
• Demonstrated experience operating within regulated and security-conscious environments.
• Experience implementing governance, compliance and risk controls across technology platforms.

Highly Advantageous

• Enterprise Content Management experience.
• Azure Integration Services experience including Logic Apps, Service Bus, Functions and API Management.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps tooling and secure SDLC practices.
• Experience working within platform enablement teams.
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory requirements and audit frameworks.

Personal Attributes

• Strong automation-first mindset.
• Passion for engineering excellence and operational reliability.
• Systems thinker with a platform-wide perspective.
• Ability to balance innovation, enablement and governance.
• Collaborative team player who can influence across engineering, risk and business functions.
• Demonstrates ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and challenging the status quo.

Preferred Certifications

• AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
• AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
• Relevant cloud, security, platform engineering or SRE certifications.

Why Join Investec?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud engineering, platform governance, DevOps and enterprise low-code capabilities within a leading financial services organisation. You will work across platform engineering, application delivery, security, risk and business teams to build scalable, resilient and secure platforms that enable innovation at enterprise scale

Investec Culture

At Investec we look for intelligent, energetic people filled with passion, integrity and curiosity. We value individuals who in turn value our culture that is, a flexible attitude comfortable to live with ambiguity and willing to challenge the status quo. Diversity, talent and leadership are respected in pursuit of the growth of our business. People who can manage themselves and build strong relationships in order to get things done, will perform in out of the ordinary ways in our environment.