Senior DevOps Team Lead — Cloud, CI/CD & Delivery

NTT Ltd.; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA in Johannesburg invites an experienced Senior Team Lead, DevOps to guide a skilled squad through design, build, release and support activities across portfolios. This hybrid role focuses on aligning DevOps practices with business goals and ensuring reliable, scalable experiences for customers and operations teams.

You will lead delivery pipelines, foster collaboration across stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in both processes and tooling to reduce risk and accelerate value

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or a related field is required.
• DevOps certification and Agile certification are preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is preferred.
• Knowledge of scripting languages Bash, Python, and Ruby is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps operations and coordinate product design with business operations to launch products.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to execute the DevOps strategy.
• Oversee design, development, and implementation of processes, capabilities, tools and processes.
• Support agile software development from design to production.
• Promote continuous integration and automated testing with rapid release cycles.
• Develop delivery pipelines for continuous deployment and testing.
• Monitor operational quality and automate testing to ensure reliability.
• Manage tickets to maintain uptime and production quality.
• Lead and allocate team responsibilities and supervisory tasks.
• Plan system and acceptance tests including software security testing.
• Draft and maintain procedures and handle support requests per standards.

Skills

Technical leadership

DevOps expertise

People management

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

DevOps certification

Agile certification

Cloud platforms knowledge

Scripting languages knowledge

Tools

Bash

Python

Ruby

Job description

NTT DATA in Johannesburg invites an experienced Senior Team Lead, DevOps to guide a skilled squad through design, build, release and support activities across portfolios. This hybrid role focuses on aligning DevOps practices with business goals and ensuring reliable, scalable experiences for customers and operations teams.

You will lead delivery pipelines, foster collaboration across stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in both processes and tooling to reduce risk and accelerate value