Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Lautus Solutions; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Lautus Solutions is inviting experienced mid-to-senior infrastructure engineers to join its team in Johannesburg. You will be responsible for developing and operating a sophisticated service framework while applying your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and systems management. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and ensure optimal service performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code and cloud platforms is vital.
• Proven background in delivering infrastructure and automation projects.
• Solid understanding of security principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and evolve business-critical managed services.
• Contribute to infrastructure landscape using various automation tools.
• Ensure high standards of performance, reliability, and security.

Skills

Infrastructure Engineering

Automation Tooling

Systems Design

Operational Resilience

Cloud Platforms

Python Programming

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

6 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Direct message the job poster from Lautus Solutions Lautus Solutions is seeking experienced mid-to-senior software engineers or infrastructure specialists who are excited by the challenge of building and operating a complex, business-critical managed service used daily by hundreds of users.

You will join a highly skilled team and apply your expertise in infrastructure engineering, automation tooling, systems design, and operational resilience.

Our environment offers opportunities to work on everything from CI / CD pipelines and container orchestration to configuration management, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.

While you may bring experience in specific tools or platforms, you will be expected to contribute broadly across our infrastructure landscape.

Our core product is a comprehensive administration platform delivered as software-as-a-service to leading South African investment and wealth management firms.

Our mission is to provide a platform that leads the market in accuracy, resilience, and functionality.

As a cloud-hosted solution, our stack includes modern tooling across CI / CD, containerization, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure.

You will help build, maintain, and evolve this environment to meet high standards of performance, reliability, and security.

We make extensive use of automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible, alongside programming in Python.

Our environments are entirely based on Ubuntu Linux.

Experience with server monitoring software (e.g.

Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog) and a solid understanding of security principles and best practices (including hardening, access control, auditing, and incident response) is highly valued.

Lautus Solutions is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, but operates as a fully distributed team.

You can work from anywhere with a timezone within 3 hours of South African Standard Time.

You must be available during our core business hours (Monday to Friday, 09 : 00–16 : 00 SAST).

The full team meets annually for planning and social events, with additional in-person collaboration among Johannesburg-based staff.

Job Summary Lautus Solutions is seeking experienced mid-to-senior software engineers or infrastructure specialists who are excited by the challenge of building and operating a complex, business-critical managed service used daily by hundreds of users.

You will join a highly skilled team and apply your expertise in infrastructure engineering, automation tooling, systems design, and operational resilience.

Our environment offers opportunities to work on everything from CI / CD pipelines and container orchestration to configuration management, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.

While you may bring experience in specific tools or platforms, you will be expected to contribute broadly across our infrastructure landscape.

Our core product is a comprehensive administration platform delivered as software-as-a-service to leading South African investment and wealth management firms.

Our mission is to provide a platform that leads the market in accuracy, resilience, and functionality.

As a cloud-hosted solution, our stack includes modern tooling across CI / CD, containerization, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure.

You will help build, maintain, and evolve this environment to meet high standards of performance, reliability, and security.

We make extensive use of automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible, alongside programming in Python.

Our environments are entirely based on Ubuntu Linux.

Experience with server monitoring software (e.g.

Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog) and a solid understanding of security principles and best practices (including hardening, access control, auditing, and incident response) is highly valued.

Lautus Solutions is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, but operates as a fully distributed team.

You can work from anywhere with a timezone within 3 hours of South African Standard Time.

You must be available during our core business hours (Monday to Friday, 09 : 00–16 : 00 SAST).

The full team meets annually for planning and social events, with additional in-person collaboration among Johannesburg-based staff.

Desired Experience and Qualifications Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure and automation projects, including : - Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) - Configuration management with Ansible - Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) - Containerization (LXC, LXD, Docker, Kubernetes) - CI / CD tooling (TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) - Server monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog) - Strong Python programming skills - Solid Linux administration and general networking knowledge - Understanding of infrastructure security best practices, including secure configuration, identity and access management, and compliance controls - Experience with monitoring, alerting, and system observability - Background in financial services infrastructure is advantageous but not required Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Information Technology Industries Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Lautus Solutions by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for "Senior Infrastructure Engineer" roles.

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