Site Reliability Engineer

Blue Pearl PTY; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services firm based in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to enhance operations within AWS cloud environments. The role involves responsibilities in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, and observability, particularly in compliance with PCI-DSS for the financial sector. Candidates must have at least 8 years of experience, with strong skills in networking and cloud provisioning. This position offers competitive compensation in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps role.
• Experience in PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments.
• Implement CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
• Provide observability for cloud-based environments.

Skills

AWS cloud automation

CI/CD pipeline implementation

Networking principles

Java troubleshooting

Platform engineering

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS RDS

AWS CloudWatch

AWS CDK

Linux

Windows Server

Job description

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 03/26/2026

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

• 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:

• 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:

• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• WebLogic 14c

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate