Senior DevOps & Platform Reliability Engineer

The Focus Group

Sandton

On-site

ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The Focus Group in Sandton is seeking a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and automated technology platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

You will lead platform engineering, CI/CD, SRE practices, cloud operations, and security controls, driving reliability, performance, and deployment velocity across delivery teams in a hybrid, enterprise environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent technical qualification.
8+ years software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
5+ years hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
3+ years in SRE or production operations environments.
Proven experience managing mission-critical production systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using modern automation frameworks.
Build reusable deployment templates, pipelines, and automation tooling.
Standardize platform engineering practices across teams.
Automate provisioning, configuration management, and operational processes.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure deployments.
Implement automated testing, security scanning, code quality controls, and release automation.
Drive continuous improvement of release management processes.
Enable fully automated deployment and rollback capabilities.
Improve deployment frequency while reducing deployment risk.
Establish reliability engineering practices and operational standards.
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
Improve system availability, performance, resilience, and scalability.
Lead incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis activities.
Drive proactive reliability improvements and technical debt reduction.
Design and manage cloud infrastructure environments.
Optimize performance, availability, security, and cost management.
Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where applicable.
Implement enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
Establish logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting standards.
Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
Reduce MTTR and MTTD.
Drive predictive monitoring and proactive issue detection.
Implement DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
Support vulnerability management and remediation activities.
Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with security teams to improve platform security posture.
Provide technical leadership across engineering teams.
Mentor DevOps, platform, cloud, and reliability engineers.
Promote engineering excellence and operational best practices.
Contribute to architectural decisions and roadmaps.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve engineering productivity.