Senior Devops / Cloud Engineer Ii

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

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Cape Town is seeking an Engineer to lead reliability and service initiatives. You will be responsible for migrating applications to Azure, ensuring operational excellence, and working with development teams to enhance performance. Ideal candidates will have expertise in observability tools and Azure services, and will contribute to creating a productive work environment. This role includes a comprehensive benefits package including medical aid and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan

Modern family benefits

Study Leave

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of observability techniques and tools.
• Expertise in Azure Services including VMs and Functions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and toil reduction initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot system performance.
• Migrate existing applications to Microsoft Azure.

Skills

Observability techniques

Azure Services

DevOps Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Documentation practices

Communication skills

Tools

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Python

ARM Templates

Terraform

Job description

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than countries with 11, employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About the Role

The role involves leading complex reliability and toil reduction initiatives, making data-driven decisions to define and maintain appropriate service levels that balance customer, development, and operational needs. The Engineer will serve as an escalation point during major incidents and will be responsible for completing the migration of existing applications and services to Microsoft Azure, ensuring production-grade reliability, security, and CI / CD deployment through Azure DevOps.

We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

Responsibilities

• Influence the definition and management of service level objectives (SLOs)
• Demonstrate expertise in observability tools and techniques
• Act as an escalation point during major incidents
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot system and application performance issues
• Migrate workloads to Azure, including compute (VMs, Functions), storage, and networking
• Configure and optimize Azure Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, Service Bus, and Service Principals for secure and automated operations
• Implement and manage resource groups, role-based access control (RBAC), and tagging for cost management and governance
• Contribute to and maintain knowledge documentation

Requirements

• Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to clarify complex incidents and performance issues
• Ability to create templated observability dashboards and configurations as code for easy implementation across products
• Azure Services: VMs, Storage (Blob / File), Key Vault, Functions, Service Bus, App Services, Service Principals
• DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts), YAML pipeline authoring, CI / CD automation
• Infrastructure as Code: ARM Templates or Terraform (preferred)
• Security & Governance: Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault integration, networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs)
• Scripting: PowerShell and / or Python for automation
• Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
• Soft Skills: Strong documentation practices, effective communication, and the ability to mentor junior team members

Benefits

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive. Working for you we know that your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

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Equal Opportunity

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