Senior DevOps & SRE Architect: Cloud & Reliability

DeARX; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

DeARX in South Africa seeks a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of highly available platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

This role spans cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, automation, observability and SRE, enabling engineering teams to deliver software faster, safer and more reliably. The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on DevOps and SRE experience in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years in SRE or production operations environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.
• Develop IaC and automation using Terraform, Bicep, ARM and Ansible.
• Automate provisioning, deployments and operational processes.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate testing, security, deployments and rollbacks.
• Improve release speed, quality and reliability.
• Implement SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs and SLAs.
• Improve system availability, resilience, performance and scalability.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.
• Manage and optimise enterprise cloud environments.
• Ensure high availability, security, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Support disaster recovery and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Build dashboards and improve MTTD and MTTR.
• Drive proactive issue detection.
• Embed DevSecOps and security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Support vulnerability management and regulatory compliance.
• Strengthen overall platform security.
• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, cloud and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Contribute to architecture, technology roadmaps and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud & Platform Eng

SRE

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Azure

AKS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

DeARX in South Africa seeks a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of highly available platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

This role spans cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, automation, observability and SRE, enabling engineering teams to deliver software faster, safer and more reliably. The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on DevOps and SRE experience in enterprise environments.