DevOps Engineer (CI/CD, Automation, Cloud Migration)

AES Global; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AES Global in Cape Town is seeking an experienced DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to own the delivery pipeline end to end. You will build CI/CD pipelines, define runbooks, and maintain the servers, networks and security controls powering the deployment stack.

You’ll mentor peers, drive cloud migration planning, and collaborate with security and development teams to improve reliability and resilience across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Built and run CI/CD pipelines and the underlying infrastructure.
• Automation is the default approach to repetitive tasks.
• Experience with servers and networks, diagnosing faults and keeping systems healthy.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure and the platforms they run on.
• Define runbooks and processes for development, test, release, update and support.
• Automate repeatable work and reduce manual toil.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance, availability, and security.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure automation

Server administration

Networking

Security vulnerability assessment

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Mentoring engineers

Cloud migration planning

Job description

Every engineering team has a route from a commit to production. The difference between a good one and a bad one is whether anybody owns it. This role owns it.

You will build the pipelines and the automation that make a release a routine, unremarkable event, and you will keep what ships monitored, patched and defensible afterwards. The work reaches further than tooling: there is real server and network infrastructure underneath, and a cloud migration ahead that you will help sequence rather than simply execute.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain the infrastructure and software that carry code through a CI/CD pipeline.
• Define how development, test, release, update and support actually run — the processes DevOps operations depend on, not just the scripts.
• Automate the repeatable work out of daily operations.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, availability and security, and dig into what the dashboards are not telling you.
• Work alongside the security team to identify and deploy cybersecurity measures, with vulnerability assessment and risk management as a standing habit rather than an annual exercise.
• Run incident management and root cause analysis properly — restore the service, then remove the cause.
• Write up the technical detail of the CI/CD solutions you implement, so whoever inherits them can work on them.
• Design systems with cross-functional teams so that what gets built answers a real business requirement.
• Keep a hand on the server layer as well: installing, configuring, validating, maintaining, monitoring and tuning server hardware and operational software with the rest of the infrastructure group.
• Pick up network and server problems that pass the first line, including planned upgrade windows and the occasional call that will not wait for morning.
• Help plan the roadmap for infrastructure renewal and the move to cloud.
• Mentor the engineers around you, and hold DevOps practice to something applied rather than quoted.
• Keep track of where the tooling is going, and pull in what will make the systems more capable, more efficient or harder to knock over.

What you’ll need

• You have built and run CI/CD pipelines yourself, along with the infrastructure they sit on.
• Automation is your default answer to repetition — you would rather spend a day scripting a task than keep doing it by hand.
• You are at home on servers and networks: standing them up, keeping them healthy, and finding the fault when they are not.
• You treat security as part of how something is built, not a review at the end, and you have done real vulnerability and risk work.
• You can run an incident calmly and then do the root cause analysis honestly.You document as you go, in a way somebody else can pick up.
• You can hold a technical conversation with developers, security and infrastructure people in the same week, and you want to bring newer engineers on.
• You are willing to take planned upgrade windows and genuine emergencies outside office hours as part of the job.

Nice to have

• You have moved workloads to cloud before, and have a view on what should move first and what should not move at all.
• You have helped shape an infrastructure renewal plan, not only delivered one somebody else drew up.
• A track record of growing other engineers.

What’s on offer

• The delivery pipeline end to end, as your responsibility rather than one stage of somebody else’s.
• Both halves of modern DevOps — pipelines and automation, and the servers and networks they actually run on.
• A real say in the cloud migration and the infrastructure roadmap, at the point where the decisions are still open.
• Mentoring counted as part of the job rather than something you fit around it.

This is a permanent, full‑time position, worked on site in Cape Town.