Senior Cloud DevOps & SRE Engineer (Azure)

Expleo Group; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Expleo Group in Johannesburg (Hybrid) is seeking a Biz Dev Ops Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will work within Agile teams to design, develop, and execute automated test frameworks that validate the functionality, performance, and security of digital banking solutions.

You will also design and manage Azure-based infrastructure, implement CI/CD pipelines, and drive DevOps, SRE, and security practices across engineering to ensure high availability and resilient platforms.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/IT or related discipline preferred.
• 8+ years in software engineering, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on DevOps experience; 3+ years in SRE/production ops.
• Proven experience with mission-critical production systems and large-scale platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud-native platforms.
• Develop IaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates and Ansible.
• Design, implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins).
• Automate provisioning, config management, testing, security scanning, deployments and rollback.
• Drive DevOps & SRE practices across teams for automation and reliability.
• Establish reliability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs) to improve availability.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for production environments.
• Design/manage Azure cloud infra (AKS, App Services, networking, storage, identity, monitoring).
• Implement high-availability, DR, security and compliance controls.
• Develop observability capabilities (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards).
• Integrate DevSecOps into SDLC (security controls, vulnerability scanning).
• Monitor & optimize platform performance and cloud spend.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and cross-functional coaching.

Skills

Cloud & Platform Eng

Azure Cloud

SRE

IaC & Automation

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Monitoring & Observability

Reliability & Performance

Systems Integration

Strategic Problem Solving

Stakeholder Collaboration

Technical Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Customer-Focused Engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Science / IT or related

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

Artifactory / Nexus

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes / AKS

Helm

OpenShift

Dynatrace / Grafana / Prometheus

Elastic Stack / Splunk

Azure Monitor

Job description

Expleo Group in Johannesburg (Hybrid) is seeking a Biz Dev Ops Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will work within Agile teams to design, develop, and execute automated test frameworks that validate the functionality, performance, and security of digital banking solutions.

You will also design and manage Azure-based infrastructure, implement CI/CD pipelines, and drive DevOps, SRE, and security practices across engineering to ensure high availability and resilient platforms.