Senior DevOps Engineer — Hybrid Cloud & CI/CD Expert

Placements24; Benoni; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Retirement benefits

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The role focuses on IaC with Terraform/Ansible, container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, and close collaboration with development and QA teams to deliver reliable software. A hybrid work model in Gauteng is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in DevOps, systems admin, or software engineering.
• Proven CI/CD experience (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps).
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Networking, security, and monitoring fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes (CI/CD).
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve scalability and reliability.
• Automate operational tasks and develop system administration scripts.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Ensure security, compliance, and availability of production systems.
• Stay updated with DevOps trends and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production environments.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Scripting

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Infrastructure as code

Networking & security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The role focuses on IaC with Terraform/Ansible, container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, and close collaboration with development and QA teams to deliver reliable software. A hybrid work model in Gauteng is offered.