Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & SRE (Hybrid)

Idbasesoftware; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Idbasesoftware in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading banking environment. The role centers on building secure, scalable cloud platforms with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.

You will work closely with developers, architects, and security teams to deliver reliable services, using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and IaC tooling, while improving deployment templates and incident response practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable software deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop deployment, release, and environment management solutions.
• Improve developer experience through reusable pipeline and deployment templates.
• Integrate security and compliance requirements into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Identify manual processes and implement automation to improve efficiency.
• Work hands-on with AWS cloud services in a large-scale banking environment.
• Build and support workloads using AWS services (EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog).
• Use AWS CDK as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool.
• Work with CloudFormation, Ansible, and scripting where required.
• Apply cloud networking concepts including security groups, DNS, TLS, routing, and load balancing.
• Support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and resilience.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues.
• Support incident response and identify ways to prevent recurring issues.
• Apply SRE principles to improve platform reliability where applicable.
• Work with application teams to troubleshoot performance issues, including Java-based applications.
• Provide technical guidance on DevOps, AWS, automation, and reliability practices.
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.
• Promote secure, automated, and repeatable delivery practices across teams.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

AWS CDK

Linux

Windows Server

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring/Observability

SRE principles

Python Bash

Tools

CloudFormation

Ansible

Zabbix

Splunk

AppDynamics

ELK

AWS CDK

Service Catalog

Job description

Idbasesoftware in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading banking environment. The role centers on building secure, scalable cloud platforms with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.

You will work closely with developers, architects, and security teams to deliver reliable services, using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and IaC tooling, while improving deployment templates and incident response practices.