Senior Azure DevOps & Platform Reliability Engineer

Expleo

Johannesburg

Hybrid

ZAR 950,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Expleo South Africa is seeking a Biz Dev Ops Engineer in Johannesburg (Hybrid) to design, build and monitor cloud-native banking platforms. You will implement IaC using Terraform/Bicep/ARM, create robust CI/CD pipelines, and lead reliability initiatives across Agile teams.

The role requires 8+ years in software/infra, strong Azure expertise (AKS, App Services, Monitor), and solid DevOps/SRE experience. Join a high-impact environment focused on delivering secure, scalable digital banking

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations environments.
Proven experience managing mission‑critical production systems and large‑scale enterprise platforms.
Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, particularly AKS, App Services, Networking, Monitor, Storage and Identity Services.
Practical experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory and Nexus.
Strong experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates and/or Ansible.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm; OpenShift exposure will be advantageous.
Experience implementing observability solutions using Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry.
Strong scripting or programming experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, C# and/or Java; Go experience will be advantageous.
Demonstrable experience improving platform availability, deployment success rates, change failure rates, MTTD, MTTR and automation coverage.
Experience implementing high‑availability, disaster recovery, security and compliance controls in enterprise environments.
Experience leading incident response, root cause analysis and proactive reliability improvement initiatives.
Exposure to AWS or Google Cloud will be advantageous.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain highly available, scalable, secure cloud-native platforms.
Develop IaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates and Ansible.
Design, implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, testing, security scanning and deployments.
Drive DevOps and SRE practices across teams for automation and reliability.
Establish SLIs, SLOs and SLAs to improve platform availability and performance.
Lead incident response, problem management and root cause analysis for production environments.
Design and manage Azure cloud infrastructure including AKS, App Services, networking and monitoring.
Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, scalability and resilience strategies.
Develop enterprise monitoring and observability capabilities (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards).
Integrate DevSecOps practices into the software delivery lifecycle with security controls.