Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Scalable Infra

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in Cape Town to collaborate with development and operations teams to build and maintain automated deployment pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and optimize hosting costs.

You will implement and manage CI/CD tools, troubleshoot scaling and security issues, ensure high availability, maintain asset documentation, and contribute to disaster-recovery planning while advancing best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in DevOps or a related field.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to build and maintain automated deployment pipelines.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines for software applications.
• Manage infrastructure and cloud services, usually GCP.
• Optimize hosting costs by following best practices.
• Implement and manage continuous integration and delivery tools.
• Troubleshoot issues and implement fixes relating to scaling and security.
• Ensure high availability and scalability of applications and services.
• Maintain detailed, up-to-date documentation of internal system assets.
• Enable business continuity through disaster-recovery plans.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve processes and implement best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Nginx

RabbitMQ

Redis

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in Cape Town to collaborate with development and operations teams to build and maintain automated deployment pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and optimize hosting costs.

You will implement and manage CI/CD tools, troubleshoot scaling and security issues, ensure high availability, maintain asset documentation, and contribute to disaster-recovery planning while advancing best practices.