Senior/Intermediate DevOps Engineer

First Point Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

First Point Group is seeking a Senior/Intermediate DevOps Engineer (AWS) for a 12-month contract in Cape Town, South Africa. The role focuses on building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and migrating PayFast to Kubernetes, with CI/CD and agile delivery practices.

You will monitor systems, manage IaC tooling, configure databases, and troubleshoot complex issues across the stack. Relevant AWS/kubernetes certifications are required or advantageous.

Qualifications

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure certification is required.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience is essential.
• Jenkins and/or GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, PHP, Perl, Java or Go.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or SaltStack.
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, FPM and/or Node.
• Load balancing and AWS RDS (MariaDB/MySQL).
• Redis, MongoDB and other NoSQL technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security, IT best practices, system configuration, and operational procedures
• Monitor systems using applications, log files, ELK/OpenSearch, and system checks
• Build and migrate PayFast to Kubernetes
• Maintain configuration and build management systems
• Manage database maintenance and implementations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex server and user-environment issues
• Support CI, testing and release management
• Manage firewall administration, security incidents and patching
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Work within Agile planning and delivery environments

Skills

Bash

Python

Java

Go

PHP

Perl

Networking

Education

AWS Cloud Infrastructure certification

Bachelor's degree (advantageous)

RHCE / ISO 27001 / PCI (advantageous)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

SaltStack

Apache

Nginx

Load balancing

AWS RDS (MariaDB/MySQL)

Redis

MongoDB

OSI networking / AWS Transit Gateway

Job description

First Point Group is hiring on behalf of one of our clients for a Senior/Intermediate DevOps Engineer (AWS) on a 12-month contract.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain security, IT best practices, system configuration, and operational procedures
• Monitor systems using applications, log files, ELK/OpenSearch, and system checks
• Build and migrate PayFast to Kubernetes
• Maintain configuration and build management systems
• Manage database maintenance and implementations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex server and user-environment issues
• Support CI, testing and release management
• Manage firewall administration, security incidents and patching
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Work within Agile planning and delivery environments

Requirements:

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure certification is required
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Jenkins and/or GitLab CI
• Scripting/application experience in Bash, Python, PHP, Perl, Java or Go
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or SaltStack
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, FPM and/or Node
• Load balancing experience
• AWS RDS, particularly MariaDB and MySQL
• Redis, MongoDB and other NoSQL, pub/sub and key-value technologies
• Database replication technologies
• Networking knowledge, including OSI and AWS Transit Gateway

Certifications or qualifications such as a Bachelor's degree, RHCE, ISO 27001 or PCI are advantageous but not mandatory.