Senior Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer

Old Mutual South Africa; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual South Africa seeks an accomplished DevSecOps and Cloud Platform Engineer to lead secure cloud platform design and delivery across the SDLC. You will drive production-ready AWS infrastructure, embed security into CI/CD, and enable .NET teams to build, test, release, and operate reliable services.

The role focuses on containerising applications onto Amazon EKS, with hands-on EKS delivery mandatory, and requires leadership across development, cloud, architecture, operations and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud or platform engineering, including leadership of enterprise DevSecOps or cloud platform initiatives.
• Hands-on experience modernising and containerising applications for Amazon EKS.
• Strong AWS infrastructure setup experience, including VPC networking, IAM, compute, storage, load balancing, DNS, secrets management, monitoring, resilience, and cost management.
• Working knowledge of C# and modern .NET development, including ASP.NET Core, NuGet, build and test processes, configuration, diagnostics, and common deployment patterns.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end SDLC and experience embedding security, quality, governance, and operational controls at each stage.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD, Git, infrastructure as code, configuration automation, and scripting using tools and languages such as Terraform or CloudFormation, YAML, Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes engineering knowledge, including networking, ingress, storage, identity, policy, autoscaling, upgrades, workload security, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing automated security testing, vulnerability management, software supply-chain controls, and monitoring, with the ability to communicate technical risk and delivery trade-offs clearly.
• Strong technical leadership, architecture judgement, hands-on problem-solving, and risk-management capability.
• Security-by-design mindset with deep knowledge of cloud, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and software supply-chain risks.
• Ability to work effectively with .NET developers and translate application needs into secure, operable platform patterns.
• Strong incident leadership, root-cause analysis, prioritisation, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure cloud platforms and DevSecOps across the SDLC.
• Containerise and modernise apps onto AWS EKS; manage migration roadmaps.
• Embed secure SDLC controls from design to deployment with gates.
• Design secure CI/CD pipelines with code quality and SAST/DAST.
• Define IaC standards and automated governance for AWS/EKS.
• Lead governance, security, and platform reliability efforts.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud Platform

AWS

EKS

CI/CD

Security by design

Leadership

Terraform

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or Info Security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

YAML

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Old Mutual South Africa seeks an accomplished DevSecOps and Cloud Platform Engineer to lead secure cloud platform design and delivery across the SDLC. You will drive production-ready AWS infrastructure, embed security into CI/CD, and enable .NET teams to build, test, release, and operate reliable services.

The role focuses on containerising applications onto Amazon EKS, with hands-on EKS delivery mandatory, and requires leadership across development, cloud, architecture, operations and security