Senior DevOps Engineer

Blue Pearl Ltd; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance their infrastructure and implement AWS-based CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate should have robust AWS experience, a solid understanding of containerization, and strong problem-solving skills. This role offers a unique opportunity for personal growth and contributions to cloud solutions within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years' experience implementing AWS automation pipelines.
• Strong practical AWS experience.
• Experience designing/building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Assess and improve pipeline and infrastructure setups.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS services.
• Automate deployments and incident response processes.

Skills

AWS experience (S3, ECS, RDS/Aurora)

Containerisation technologies (Docker, ECS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Scripting in Python or Bash

CI/CD pipeline design and automation

Monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, ELK)

SQL/NoSQL databases

Strong problem-solving skills

AWS Certification

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Location

Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline

December 11, 2025

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Job Description

What you'll do :

• Assess the current pipeline and infrastructure setup; recommend and implement improvements aligned with industry best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI / CD pipelines using AWS-native services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR).
• Build and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and increase IaC maturity across the environment.
• Automate deployments, provisioning, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Enable developer productivity by reducing deployment friction, providing templates, scripts, and self-service tooling.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy serverless applications (AWS Lambda) and containerised workloads (ECS / Fargate).
• Improve observability using monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK stack).
• Work with microservices architecture (Aurora Postgres backend, ECS containers, modular reusable services).
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Requirements

Your Expertise :

• Strong practical AWS experience(S3, ECS / Fargate, RDS / Aurora, ECR, IAM, Redis, VPC, Parameter Store / Secrets Manager, WAF).
• Solid knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, ECS; Kubernetes experience beneficial though not in current use).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience designing / building CI / CD pipelines and automating infrastructure from scratch.
• Familiarity with Java / Tomcat applications (bonus).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring / observability (CloudWatch, ELK, X-Ray).
• Experience with SQL / NoSQL databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to stabilise infrastructure under scale.
• AWS Certification(Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar).
• 3–5 years’ experience implementing AWS automation pipelines.
• Familiarity with Step Functions, certificate automation.

Attributes :

• Tenacious and results-driven with the ability to build and manage infrastructure from scratch.
• Data-driven engineering mindset.
• Strong communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and able to mentor others.
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