Junior DevOps Engineer

Carlysle Talent Search - Centurion; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Carlysle Talent Search - Centurion is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a German consulting client’s fully remote South African team. The role focuses on deploying and maintaining Java web applications, monitoring infrastructure, and enabling automated deployment pipelines.

You will collaborate with software engineers to improve tooling, design and execute technical projects, and troubleshoot production issues to ensure stability and performance in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent.
• Proficiency in deploying and maintaining Java web applications.
• Ability to construct and monitor network, server, and application status.
• Knowledge of automation production systems including code deployment.
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies.
• Strong analytical and verbal/written communication in English.
• Open-minded towards foreign cultures and international environment.

Responsibilities

• Interact with team to improve engineers' tools, tech stack, and performance.
• Establish, design, perform, and execute technical projects.
• Assist the development team to support seamless code deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues to boost stability and sustainability.

Skills

Java Web Apps

Monitoring

Automation

SDLC Knowledge

Communication

English Proficiency

Cross-cultural

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Tools

Jenkins

Tomcat

IIS/nginx

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Ant

MSSQL

MySQL

Job description

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Reference: DBN000818-AD-1

Our client, a German Consulting company with a large South African contingency, is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their fully remote-based South African team.

They develop software solutions that support best-in-class visualization, data-driven communication, and platform independence, building upon an API-driven integration into any open BI-software. With KPI-CHAT, they take real-time data collaboration to the next level.

Are you a proactive, determined DevOps professional with strong communication skills, able to work remotely with a stable internet connection and a quiet office space? Do you enjoy developing solutions for complex issues and can you communicate and implement them in a rational way? If so, you might be the right person for us.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Interact with team members to improve our software engineers’ tools, technology stack, and application performance and stability.
• Establish, design, perform, and execute comprehensive technical projects.
• Assist the development team to support the seamless deployment of their code.
• Troubleshoot production issues to address technical commitments and boost sustainability.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent.
• Proficiency in deploying and maintaining Java web applications.
• Ability to construct and execute network, server, and application status monitoring.
• Knowledge of software automation production systems, including code deployment.
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies.
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
• Open-minded towards foreign cultures and working in an international environment.

Working Knowledge in the Following

• Infrastructure and architecture understanding
• Jenkins
• CI/CD
• MSSQL & MySQL
• Client Server Config Setup (Tomcat, JAVA)
• Reverse Proxy (IIS/nginx)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jira
• Build Tools (ANT)

Package & Remuneration

Monthly compensation will be discussed during the interview process.