Devops Engineer – Century City / Hybrid – R720K Pa

E-Merge; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 720 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance their CI/CD pipeline. The role involves maintaining AWS environments, optimizing services, and implementing Infrastructure as Code. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT, with at least 3 years of relevant experience. This hybrid position offers a competitive salary of R720k per annum.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Current AWS certifications are a plus.
• Experience with CI / CD tools is required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Optimize AWS service performance.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana)

GitLab CI / CD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda)

GitLab

Job description

SUMMARY :

DevOps Engineer – Century City / Hybrid – R720k PA

POSITION INFO :

To keep things running like a well-oiled CI / CD pipeline , we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can automate like a wizard, deploy like a boss, and sleep peacefully knowing monitoring is.

We’re changing lives. We''re reimagining financial access across South Africa with tech that actually matters. Think payments, , and inclusion all rolled into one smart, secure platform.

Responsibilities :

• Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments to ensure 99.9% uptime.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Optimize scalability, security, and performance of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.)
• Utilize monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana for system visibility and alerting
• Perform regular patching and upgrades based on the approved patch policy
• Plan and execute maintenance windows with minimal service disruption
• Address vulnerabilities using scan results (e.g., Rapid7) to ensure environment compliance
• Deploy approved GitLab pipelines into production based on JSM change requests.

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field – or equivalent work experience.
• One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained) :
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• AWS Certified Solutions – Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Microsoft Certified : Azure Administrator Associate
• Linux Essentials
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Hands‑hand‑hand… (some missing) but more content
• Experience with GitLab CI / CD or similar tools

Reference Number for this position is GZ60640 which is a permanent Hybrid position based in Century City offering a cost to company salary of R720k per annum negotiable on experience and ability.