Senior Azure DevOps & Cloud Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A global information provider in Cape Town is seeking an experienced engineer to lead reliability and toil reduction initiatives. You will make data-driven decisions and ensure smooth migration of applications to Azure while maintaining production-grade reliability and security. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of observability techniques, Azure services, and CI/CD processes, along with strong soft skills to mentor team members. This role offers great benefits including medical aid and retirement plans.

Benefits

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits

Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

Study Leave

Qualifications

• Expertise in observability tools and techniques required.
• Familiarity with Azure services for migration and management is essential.
• Experience with CI/CD automation processes is needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage service level objectives.
• Act as an escalation point during major incidents.
• Migrate workloads to Azure and optimize their performance.

Skills

Deep technical understanding of observability techniques

Ability to create templated observability dashboards

Azure Services expertise

DevOps Tools experience

Infrastructure as Code knowledge

Security & Governance skills

Scripting in PowerShell and/or Python

Monitoring with Azure tools

Strong documentation practices

Effective communication

Mentoring junior team members

Job description

A global information provider in Cape Town is seeking an experienced engineer to lead reliability and toil reduction initiatives. You will make data-driven decisions and ensure smooth migration of applications to Azure while maintaining production-grade reliability and security. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of observability techniques, Azure services, and CI/CD processes, along with strong soft skills to mentor team members. This role offers great benefits including medical aid and retirement plans.