Senior DevOps Engineer

Network Finance; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Finance seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure across production, staging and development; you’ll design IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, and drive performance, security and resilience improvements. You’ll enhance monitoring, support DR and failover, and promote DevSecOps across agile teams.

The role requires solid AWS expertise, Linux administration, and experience with IaC and automation in FinTech or high-growth settings.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Solid Linux administration experience in production environments.
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
• Experience designing and supporting secure, compliant environments.
• Exposure to PCI-DSS and/or ISO27001 environments will be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, agile delivery, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience within FinTech, technology, or other high-growth environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and optimise cloud infrastructure across production, staging, and development environments.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Improve platform performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity initiatives.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, vulnerability management, patching, and secure platform configurations.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment efficiency and operational reliability.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to infrastructure and developer experience.
• Contribute to agile delivery teams and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

7+ years', experience

Cloud experience

DevOps principles

Agile delivery

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Loki

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Python

Bash

Ruby

Nginx

Apache

MySQL

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

What You'll Do

• Build, manage, and optimise cloud infrastructure across production, staging, and development environments.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Improve platform performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity initiatives.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, vulnerability management, patching, and secure platform configurations.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment efficiency and operational reliability.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to infrastructure and developer experience.
• Contribute to agile delivery teams and continuous improvement initiatives.

Technical Environment

You’ll work with a modern technology stack that includes:

• AWS Cloud (Azure and GCP exposure advantageous)
• Terraform
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Argo CD
• GitLab CI, GitHub Actions & Jenkins
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack & Loki
• Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Python, Bash or Ruby
• NGINX & Apache
• MySQL & PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, Proxies & Core Networking Technologies

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Solid Linux administration experience in production environments.
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
• Experience designing and supporting secure, compliant environments.
• Exposure to PCI-DSS and/or ISO27001 environments will be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, agile delivery, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience within FinTech, technology, or other high-growth environments preferred.

Key Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• High attention to detail and operational excellence
• Proactive risk identification and mitigation mindset
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments

Why Consider This Opportunity?

Join a highly skilled technology team where you'll have the opportunity to influence cloud strategy, drive automation at scale, strengthen platform security, and help engineering teams deliver world-class solutions in a complex, high-availability environment.