Senior DevOps Engineer

Blue Pearl PTY LTD; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company based in Johannesburg seeks a professional skilled in AWS to oversee CI/CD pipeline development and infrastructure management. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with AWS services, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to mentor team members. Successful applicants will work to improve deployment processes and infrastructure stability in a collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience implementing AWS automation pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and containerisation technologies.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Assess current infrastructure and implement improvements.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS services.
• Automate deployments and increase infrastructure maturity.

Skills

AWS experience

Containerisation technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (Python, Bash)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/observability

Problem-solving skills

AWS Certification

Education

AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

ELK stack

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.