Multi - Discipline Specialist

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Johannesburg is seeking a Multi-Discipline Specialist to design and operate cloud-first infrastructure. You will work across SRE, DevOps, and system administration to ensure scalable, reliable services on Azure, including AKS clusters and CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and scripting (Python/PowerShell), strong Linux skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve automation,

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in DevOps/SRE roles.
• Experience with Azure cloud platform and AKS is essential.
• Proficiency with automation and infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform).
• Linux system administration (RHEL or equivalent) and scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring/observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (AKS) and containerized apps.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and incident response to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet business requirements.

Skills

Azure

AKS

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Education

IT related Degree (SRE / Cloud technology)

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

ELK Stack

Jenkins

Job description

About the job Multi - Discipline Specialist

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• IT related Degree (SRE / Cloud technology)
• A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in roles such as DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, System Administrator, or similar positions involving infrastructure and operations management.
• Cloud Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working with Azure cloud platform, specifically with services relevant to the tech stack mentioned.
• Familiarity with Azure VMs, AKS, Azure DevOps, and related tools.
• Kubernetes and Containers: Practical experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with automation using tools like Ansible.
• Proven ability to write Ansible playbooks, automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration, and manage infrastructure as code.
• CI/CD and DevOps Practices: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps Pipelines or similar tools.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Linux System Administration: Strong proficiency in administering Linux systems, particularly Red Hat Linux or similar distributions.
• Experience with system installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a production environment.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with at least one programming language for automation, tooling, and infrastructure task.
• Cloud technology ( Azure) stack implementations hands on Exposure to Kubernetes / AKS implementations.

Preferred Certifications

• Springboot , Java , Devops , API integration , Cloud technology implementations
• Autmation tools: Azure devops and Ansible
• Elasticsearch, Kibana and logstash
• RedhatLinux

Technical Knowledge/ Experience:

• Containerization and Orchestration: Strong knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and its management concepts is essential.
• Automation: Experience with automation tools like Ansible and Azure Devops.
• Proficiency in creating and maintaining infrastructure as code using terraform and writing Ansible playbooks for provisioning and configuration management.
• Logging, Monitoring and Tracing: Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or similar logging and monitoring tools.
• Understanding log aggregation, log parsing, and creating meaningful visualizations and dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing systems like Jaeger.
• Knowledge of system installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Cloud Platform: Familiarity with Azure cloud platform and its services, especially those relevant to the tech stack being used.
• Knowledge of Azure VMs, networking, storage, security, and related concepts.
• Scripting and Programming: Strong scripting and automation skills using languages like Bash, Python, or PowerShell. Proficiency in at least one programming language for scripting and tooling purposes.

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Banking knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Business writing
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Risk management process and frameworks
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Role relevant related technologies
• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge across multiple technologies
• IT Risk and security principes
• Usability and GUI techniques
• Multiple operating system
• Systems Analysis and design

Responsibilities:

• Site reliability engineers incorporate various software engineering aspects to develop and implement services that improve IT and support teams.
• Services can range from production code changes to alerting and monitoring adjustments.
• Actively participate in problem solving (including support escalation cases) which involves technical problem investigation, and management of problem investigation across teams.
• Fulfil standby duties.
• Identify opportunities and implement strategies to increase system reliability and better performance.
• Improve collaborative response to outages by enhancing automation, documentation, tools and modules used by support team
• Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies.
• Address the needs of the company by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies.
• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies.
• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
• Ensure maximum exploitation of the multiple technology features across multiple business initiatives.
• Identify further opportunities for use of the technologies.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems.
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on company technologies and legislative requirements.
• Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to multiple technologies.
• Engage with vendors related to multiple technologies.
• Meet company's needs by presenting on the exploitation of the technologies.
• Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided.
• Expand IP beyond own technology speciality.
• Break down components of end to end design and defined logical units of work.
• Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead.
• Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end to end design.
• Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design.
• Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design.
• Review and approve component designs.
• Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across.
• Participate in Severities (Sev's) and provide expert guidance and solutions on technical problems.
• Document and maintain the end to end design.
• Build end to end design and release to stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses.