Site Reliability Engineer

ATS Client; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

ATS Client is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments, focusing on automation, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering. The role emphasizes reliability, PCI-DSS compliance, and scalable infrastructure across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience in hybrid AWS, strong networking skills, and expertise with AWS services, observability tools, and CI/CD platforms to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on DevOps in hybrid AWS cloud
• PCI-DSS compliant systems experience (finance)
• Strong networking fundamentals and protocols
• Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines
• Experience with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning
• Observability in cloud/hybrid environments
• Troubleshooting low-latency Java apps in SRE context
• Platform Engineering principles applied in practice
• Familiar with AWS Well-Architected Framework

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments
• Automate infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• Provision AWS workloads and config rollout
• Implement observability for hybrid environments
• Troubleshoot latency and Java applications
• Apply Platform Engineering practices across the org
• Adhere to AWS Well-Architected Framework

Skills

DevOps

Networking

Observability

Platform Engineering

Tools

AWS EC2

RDS Postgres

EKS

ECS

CloudWatch

Splunk

ELK

CI/CD tools

Harness

Azure DevOps

GitLab

AWS CDK

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Bash scripting

Python

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments, preferably within PCI-DSS compliant financial services environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in infrastructure automation, CI/CD implementation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering practices across the organization.

What you'll do

• Hands on work experience in a hybrid AWS cloud environment, preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout).
• Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments.
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols.
• Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context.
• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices.
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices.

Requirements

Your expertise:

• Must have at least 8 years hands-on experience in a DevOps role within a hybrid AWS cloud environment
• Experience in PCI-DSS compliant systems (preferably within the financial sector)
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines
• Experience with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning
• Experience implementing observability in cloud and hybrid environments
• Experience troubleshooting low-latency and Java-based applications
• Practical application of Platform Engineering principles
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework

Technology and Tooling

Essential

• AWS Services: EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
• AWS CDK
• Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• CI/CD platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)
• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server

Preferred

• Python scripting
• AWS CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash scripting

Optional

• Zabbix monitoring
• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• WebLogic 14c
• Nginx

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate