Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Rosstone; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Rosstone is seeking an experienced engineering professional who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and operations. The successful candidate will possess deep technical expertise, a strong automation mindset, and a passion for building reliable, secure, scalable platforms.

You will enable engineering teams to deliver business value rapidly and safely, work across Azure AKS, Azure DevOps, and modern CI/CD, and champion production reliability and security

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations environments.
• Proven experience managing mission-critical production systems.

Skills

Automation mindset

Platform engineering

Site reliability engineering

Production operations

Software engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

Artifactory

Nexus

Job description

Ideal Candidate:

An experienced engineering professional who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and operations. The successful candidate will possess deep technical expertise, a strong automation mindset, and a passion for building reliable, secure, scalable platforms while enabling engineering teams to deliver business value rapidly and safely.

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• ITIL Foundation
• SRE Foundation Certification

Minimum Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations environments.
• Proven experience managing mission-critical production systems.
• Experience operating large-scale enterprise platforms.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

• Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure App Services, Azure Networking
• Azure Monitor, Azure Storage and Azure Identity Services
• Exposure to AWS and Google Cloud is advantageous.

DevOps Tooling

• Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Git
• Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory and Nexus