Senior DevOps & SRE: Cloud Platform Reliability Lead

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd is seeking a senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available enterprise platforms. You will work across engineering and delivery teams to boost reliability, deployment velocity, resilience and production performance.

The role spans DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps. You will lead incident response, monitor SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and drive automation across hybrid-cloud

Qualifications

• 8+ years across software infra, devops, cloud, or platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Build reusable tools, deployment templates and platform components.
• Standardise platform engineering practices across delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to increase automation and reduce manual work.
• Design, implement and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes.
• Improve deployment frequency while reducing risk and cost.
• Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes.
• Implement and mature SRE practices across production environments.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Improve availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Lead production incident response and RCA activities.
• Drive reliability improvements and reduce technical debt.
• Improve MTTR and MTTD metrics.
• Design, implement and operate Microsoft Azure environments.
• Work with AKS, Azure App Services, Networking, Monitor, Storage and Identity.
• Design disaster recovery-ready environments.
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, resilience and cost.
• Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments.
• Build and support containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage AKS and Helm configurations.
• Support container platforms and observability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes

Azure Cloud

CI/CD

Security & DevSecOps

Observability

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Information Technology

Information Systems

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub / Git

Jenkins

Helm

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Ansible

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AKS

OpenShift

Job description

Datonomy Solutions (Pty) Ltd is seeking a senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available enterprise platforms. You will work across engineering and delivery teams to boost reliability, deployment velocity, resilience and production performance.

The role spans DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps. You will lead incident response, monitor SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and drive automation across hybrid-cloud