Platform & DevOps Engineer: Automation, Monitoring & Support

MVIA; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

MVIA in South Africa is seeking a versatile engineer who bridges cloud infrastructure, automated delivery pipelines, production observability and first-line support across a multi-tenant client ecosystem.

You will provision environments, improve CI/CD pipelines, set up uptime monitoring, and act on live alerts with clear triage data. The role combines building automation with responsive incident handling and diagnostic storytelling to keep services healthy.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain cloud environments and optimise CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS tooling.
• Configure uptime monitoring, automated alert routing and dashboards in Datadog and Better Stack.
• Act as first-line support for system alerts, diagnosing issues and executing runbooks.
• Implement AI-assisted monitoring to summarise logs and isolate anomalies.
• Troubleshoot container health, auto-scaling and load-balancer configurations.

Skills

Cloud infra

Automation

Monitoring

Incident response

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS DevOps tooling

Datadog

Better Stack

Job description

MVIA in South Africa is seeking a versatile engineer who bridges cloud infrastructure, automated delivery pipelines, production observability and first-line support across a multi-tenant client ecosystem.

You will provision environments, improve CI/CD pipelines, set up uptime monitoring, and act on live alerts with clear triage data. The role combines building automation with responsive incident handling and diagnostic storytelling to keep services healthy.