Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Kubernetes, Cloud

Sabenza It & Recruitment; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza It & Recruitment is seeking a DevOps Engineer to bridge software development and IT operations, automating and optimizing the delivery lifecycle.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS-based infrastructure, monitor performance, and ensure reliability, security, and scalability through IaC. Collaboration with development, testing, and operations teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Matric Certification and a Bachelors (RHCE / ISO 27001/PCI) is a plus but not required
• High level of proficiency in Linux based OS
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) Associated Certified is a must have
• Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab Ci)
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, Java, Go or similar
• Proven IaC experience with SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
• Load Balancers experience
• Knowledge of AWS RDS/MariaDB and MySQL
• NoSQL DBs Redis/Mongo, pub/sub and key/value stores
• Networking knowledge: OSI, AWS TGW, basic on-prem OSI
• Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queues

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain procedures to comply with security policies and IT best practices
• Develop and maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures
• Monitor systems via applications, log files, Elk/OpenSearch and sanity checks
• Actively work on building and migrating PayFast to Kubernetes
• Maintain our configuration and build management systems
• Database maintenance and implementations
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve problems in Servers and users' environment
• Work closely with technical team members (cultural fit)
• Must be able to troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively
• Research and evaluation of new technologies for our environment
• CI, Testing and release management
• Firewall Administration
• Security and incident response
• Patch management
• Agile working methods, agile planning, time management and planning/prioritisation skills

Skills

DevOps mindset

Troubleshooting

Agile working

Time management

Planning/prioritisation

Education

RHCE

ISO 27001

PCI

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS

Kubernetes

SaltStack

Chef

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Load Balancers

Redis

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

Job description

Sabenza It & Recruitment is seeking a DevOps Engineer to bridge software development and IT operations, automating and optimizing the delivery lifecycle.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS-based infrastructure, monitor performance, and ensure reliability, security, and scalability through IaC. Collaboration with development, testing, and operations teams is essential.