Senior Cloud & Automation Engineer (Remote)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa seeks a Senior Operations Engineer to keep complex environments running smoothly and to fix challenging production issues. You will partner with development, infrastructure, security and product teams to ensure applications are built correctly and designed to run reliably in production.

The role emphasizes automation, cloud platforms, IaC and strong incident resolution skills in a fast-paced global team.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years IT experience, 3–5 years in IT operations/operations management.
• ITIL Foundation and Service Transition or equivalent.
• Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12-month period.
• Remote / On-site work location flexibility.
• Modern, state-of-the-art offices.
• Dynamic Global Team collaboration.
• Agile Working Model Methodology.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and product teams to ensure applications are designed to run reliably in production.
• Maintain and improve complex production environments and automation.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability to prevent incidents and optimize performance.

Skills

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

AWS

Azure

Release management

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

ITIL

Education

ITIL Foundation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa seeks a Senior Operations Engineer to keep complex environments running smoothly and to fix challenging production issues. You will partner with development, infrastructure, security and product teams to ensure applications are built correctly and designed to run reliably in production.

The role emphasizes automation, cloud platforms, IaC and strong incident resolution skills in a fast-paced global team.