Junior DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Payments, Hybrid Cape Town

EdUpStairs; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Network International South Africa in Cape Town is offering a hands-on learning role to build a foundation in AWS and DevOps. You'll work with experienced engineers to support, monitor, and automate the infrastructure behind our payment gateway, with mentorship and progressively larger responsibilities.

The role emphasizes curiosity, attention to detail, and willingness to learn; success means gaining practical skills, contributing to a secure payments environment, and growing toward mid/senior

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• AWS Associate Level certification is preferred; foundations level considered with experience.
• Familiarity with Linux command line.
• Some scripting ability (Bash, Python).
• Understanding of networking concepts (IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS).
• Basic Git usage.
• Strong problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Good communication and eagerness to learn.
• Right to work in South Africa.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health and performance of the payment platform using CloudWatch dashboards and alerts.
• Assist with routine AWS infrastructure tasks (EC2, S3, RDS, Load Balancers, Route 53) under guidance.
• Write and maintain simple automation scripts (Bash, Python).
• Support CI/CD pipelines that deploy applications.
• Investigate issues by reading logs and metrics to identify root causes.
• Assist with routine maintenance: patches, backups, cert renewals, and access requests.
• Document procedures and runbooks and share learnings.
• Participate in stand-ups, code reviews, and incident reviews.
• Grow toward on-call rotation with support as experience increases.

Skills

AWS Associate Level certification

Linux basics

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Networking fundamentals

Git basics

Strong problem-solving

Good communication

Eligibility to work in South Africa

Education

Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Network International South Africa in Cape Town is offering a hands-on learning role to build a foundation in AWS and DevOps. You'll work with experienced engineers to support, monitor, and automate the infrastructure behind our payment gateway, with mentorship and progressively larger responsibilities.

The role emphasizes curiosity, attention to detail, and willingness to learn; success means gaining practical skills, contributing to a secure payments environment, and growing toward mid/senior