Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

Datonomy Solutions; Emfuleni Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available enterprise platforms in a cloud-first environment. You will work across DevOps, SRE, Azure, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and security to improve reliability, deployment velocity and operational efficiency.

You will lead incident response, implement observability standards and partner with delivery teams to scale platforms, optimise performance and reduce risk across mission-critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical qualification preferred.
• Senior hands-on engineering role spanning DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Build reusable tooling, deployment templates and platform components.
• Standardise platform practices across delivery teams.

Skills

DevOps

Azure

Kubernetes

SRE

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Azure DevOps

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable and automated enterprise technology platforms.

This is a senior hands‑on engineering role spanning DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps.

The successful candidate will work across engineering and delivery teams to improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, resilience, automation, operational efficiency and production performance, while supporting mission‑critical enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Build reusable engineering tools, deployment templates and platform components.
• Establish and standardise platform engineering practices across multiple delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and increase engineering automation.

CI/CD & Release Automation

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise- grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, code-quality controls and release automation.
• Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes.
• Improve deployment frequency while reducing change and deployment risk.
• Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes.

Site Reliability Engineering

• Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering practices across production environments.
• Define, monitor and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Improve application and platform availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt.
• Improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).

Azure Cloud Engineering

Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.

Work extensively with technologies such as:

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Azure App Services o Azure Networking o Azure Monitor o Azure Storage o Azure Identity Services
• Design highly available and disaster-recovery-capable environments.
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, resilience, security and cost.
• Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where required.

Containers & Kubernetes

• Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage Kubernetes environments, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm.
• Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance.
• OpenShift experience would be advantageous.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Hands‑on Experience With Technologies Such As

• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM Templates
• Ansible

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
• Establish enterprise observability standards.
• Implement proactive and predictive monitoring.
• Use observability information to improve application and infrastructure reliability.

Relevant Technologies May Include

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Elastic Stack / ELK
• Splunk
• Azure Monitor
• OpenTelemetry

DevSecOps & Security

• Embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software-delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate security scanning and controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support vulnerability identification, remediation and risk reduction.
• Ensure cloud and platform environments comply with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with information-security teams to continuously improve platform security.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud, Platform and SRE teams.
• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technology roadmaps.
• Promote engineering standards and operational best practice.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving engineering productivity and reliability.

Minimum Experience

• 8+ years' experience across software engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years' hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years' Site Reliability Engineering or production-operations experience.
• Proven experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Experience operating large-scale enterprise technology platforms.
• Strong exposure to highly available and business-critical environments.

Essential Technical Skills

Cloud

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Networking
• Azure App Services
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Storage
• Azure Identity

DevOps / CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub / Git
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• Artifactory and/or Nexus

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM Templates
• Ansible

Containers

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm

Observability

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Elastic Stack
• Splunk
• Azure Monitor
• OpenTelemetry

Scripting / Development

Strong Scripting Or Programming Ability Using Technologies Such As

• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash
• C#
• Java

Go experience would be advantageous.

Core Technical Competencies

• DevOps Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Azure Cloud Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes / Container Orchestration
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure Automation
• DevSecOps
• Cloud Architecture
• Observability
• Continuous Delivery
• Systems Integration
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Optimisation
• Incident & Problem Management
• Root Cause Analysis

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong technical problem-solving ability
• Strategic thinking
• Strong decision-making skills
• Collaboration across engineering disciplines
• Stakeholder management
• Continuous-improvement mindset
• Coaching and mentoring capability
• Accountability and ownership
• Customer-centric approach

Qualifications

A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent technical qualification in one of the following areas is preferred:

• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Software Engineering
• Information Systems

Preferred Certifications

Relevant certifications would be advantageous, including:

• 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

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior, hands‑on engineer who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering and production operations.

They should have deep experience building and running highly available enterprise environments and possess a strong automation‑first and reliability‑focused mindset.

This person should be equally comfortable troubleshooting a critical production issue, building Terraform infrastructure, improving a Kubernetes platform, designing a CI/CD pipeline, implementing observability, defining SLOs and mentoring other engineers.

Desired Skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer
• SRE