Infra Automation Engineer — Zero-Touch Ops

Vodafone Group Plc; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs

Medical aid

Staff discounts

Retirement funds

Job summary

Vodacom seeks an experienced infrastructure automation engineer to design and implement scalable automation across on‑prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

You will build reusable patterns, templates, and self‑service workflows, while developing and maintaining IaC, configuration code, and integration with APIs, pipelines, and monitoring systems. Strong governance and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation and IaC across hybrid environments.
• Experience with enterprise automation platforms and governed self-service execution.
• Solid software engineering practices including testing, peer review, and modular design.
• Good understanding of ITIL, change governance, and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation and orchestration for Zero Touch Operations across on‑prem, private, and public clouds.
• Create reusable automation patterns, templates, integration standards, and self‑service execution.
• Develop IaC/configuration‑as‑code integrating with APIs, pipelines, and monitoring tools.
• Provide guidance, enablement, and escalation support for production automation and resilience.
• Maintain automation docs, runbooks, and standards to improve adoption and compliance.

Skills

Python

Scripting

Source control

CI/CD

GitOps

Modular design

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Grade 12

Tools

Ansible Automation Platform

Kubernetes

Git

ServiceNow (ITSM)

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions etc.)

Job description

Vodacom seeks an experienced infrastructure automation engineer to design and implement scalable automation across on‑prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

You will build reusable patterns, templates, and self‑service workflows, while developing and maintaining IaC, configuration code, and integration with APIs, pipelines, and monitoring systems. Strong governance and collaboration skills are essential.