Senior DevOps & SRE: Cloud, Platform & Automation Leader

Datonomy Solutions; Emfuleni Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions seeks a senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable enterprise platforms. This hands-on role spans DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps, delivering automated, reliable production systems across teams.

The candidate will lead platform engineering practices, drive automation, and improve deployment velocity while ensuring security and compliance in mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
• Work extensively with technologies such as Azure App Services, Azure Networking, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Azure Identity Services.
• Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm.
• Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance.
• Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, Ansible for IaC.
• 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 reliability.
• Strong scripting or programming abilities using Python, PowerShell, Bash, C#, Java.
• Go experience would be advantageous.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve productivity and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud, Platform and SRE teams.

Job description

Datonomy Solutions seeks a senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable enterprise platforms. This hands-on role spans DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps, delivering automated, reliable production systems across teams.

The candidate will lead platform engineering practices, drive automation, and improve deployment velocity while ensuring security and compliance in mission-critical environments.