Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & Kubernetes Lead

Sanlam; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanlam Corporate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead to design, implement, operate and continuously improve DevOps, cloud and technical agility capabilities. You will provide technical leadership for the DevOps function, manage a DevOps team member, and contribute to engineering delivery, automation, platform support and incident resolution.

The role requires deep AWS/Azure cloud-native expertise, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps tooling and Jira Cloud migration, ensuring

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in DevOps, cloud engineering or equivalent.
• Experience owning enterprise CI/CD platforms at scale.
• Hands-on with Jira Cloud, Azure DevOps and Agile testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure technical agility domain meets stakeholder requirements, including business change, technology and operations.
• Define and drive adoption of technical agility platform principles and standards.
• Provide leadership for migration to Jira Cloud and integration with DevOps tooling and governance.

Skills

Azure DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Leadership

Education

Undergraduate Degree / Honours

Tools

Jira Cloud

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Sanlam Corporate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead to design, implement, operate and continuously improve DevOps, cloud and technical agility capabilities. You will provide technical leadership for the DevOps function, manage a DevOps team member, and contribute to engineering delivery, automation, platform support and incident resolution.

The role requires deep AWS/Azure cloud-native expertise, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps tooling and Jira Cloud migration, ensuring