Senior DevOps Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & Observability (Hybrid)

S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days holiday per year

Pension contribution up to 7%

Hybrid working

Parental support: fertility treatment,

Maternity leave and Paternity leave

Health and medical benefits including:

Job summary

S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting in Cape Town is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS for our Corporate Intelligence products. You will own IaC with Terraform, build robust CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability, ensure security, and collaborate with agile teams to deliver reliable features end-to-end.

The role requires hands-on AWS experience, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), Linux fundamentals, and strong

Qualifications

• Degree level education in computer science, maths or related numerate subject, OR equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or similar role, supporting multiple product or engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch) in production environments.
• Extensive experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code, including module design and environment separation.
• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a small, agile team.
• Well-organised with strong attention to detail, particularly in automation and infrastructure changes.
• Delivery-focused, balancing speed with reliability and long-term maintainability.
• A proven ability to work from idea to a working feature.
• Able to evaluate new technologies pragmatically rather than adopting trends for their own sake.
• Strong communication skills, with ability to communicate with business stakeholders to understand the problems and contribute to technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Own infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible and well-documented.
• Architect, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability, speed, and automation.
• Own observability and monitoring practices with meaningful metrics, dashboards, logs and alerts.
• Embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime environments.
• Keep up to date with DevOps, cloud, and AWS best practices, tooling, and emerging technologies.
• Take ownership of complex problems end-to-end, from design through to production support.

Skills

Senior DevOps Engineer experience

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability/Monitoring

Linux/Unix networking

Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as code

Stakeholder communication

Automation

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS EC2

AWS ECS/EKS

RDS

S3

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Terraform

Job description

S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting in Cape Town is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS for our Corporate Intelligence products. You will own IaC with Terraform, build robust CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability, ensure security, and collaborate with agile teams to deliver reliable features end-to-end.

The role requires hands-on AWS experience, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), Linux fundamentals, and strong