Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Automation (Remote)

iDbase Software; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in South Africa is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance client infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role involves automation, managing infrastructure as code, and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates should have strong AWS, Docker, and scripting skills, alongside a background in CI/CD. This position offers a 12-month contract with market-related salary and options for Johannesburg or remote work.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and Docker.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Solid experience in building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Assess and optimize current pipeline and infrastructure setups.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS services.
• Mentor junior engineers in DevOps and cloud best practices.

Skills

AWS services (ECS, Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ECR, IAM, VPC)

Docker

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, ELK, X-Ray)

SQL/NoSQL databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field

Job description

A leading software company in South Africa is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance client infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role involves automation, managing infrastructure as code, and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates should have strong AWS, Docker, and scripting skills, alongside a background in CI/CD. This position offers a 12-month contract with market-related salary and options for Johannesburg or remote work.