Senior Devops Engineer

Senior Dev Ops Engineer at Blue Pearl HQ

Senior level, Full-time Engineering and Information Technology role in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

• Assess the current pipeline and infrastructure setup; recommend and implement improvements aligned with industry best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI / CD pipelines using AWS-native services (Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, ECR).
• Build and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK) and increase IaC maturity across the environment.
• Automate deployments, provisioning, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Enable developer productivity by reducing deployment friction, providing templates, scripts, and self-service tooling.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy serverless applications (AWS Lambda) and containerised workloads (ECS / Fargate).
• Improve observability using monitoring and logging tools (Cloud Watch, X-Ray, ELK stack).
• Work with microservices architecture (Aurora Postgres backend, ECS containers, modular reusable services).
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

• Strong practical AWS experience (S3, ECS / Fargate, RDS / Aurora, ECR, IAM, Redis, VPC, Parameter Store / Secrets Manager, WAF).
• Solid knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, ECS; Kubernetes experience beneficial though not in current use).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK).
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience designing / building CI / CD pipelines and automating infrastructure from scratch.
• Familiarity with Java / Tomcat applications (bonus).
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring / observability (Cloud Watch, ELK, X-Ray).
• 
  
  Experience with SQL / No
  
  SQL databases.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to stabilise infrastructure under scale.
• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, Dev Ops Engineer, or similar).
• 3–5 years' experience implementing AWS automation pipelines.
• Familiarity with Step Functions, certificate automation.

• Tenacious and results‑driven with the ability to build and manage infrastructure from scratch.
• Data‑driven engineering mindset.
• Strong communicator to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Self‑motivated, collaborative, and able to mentor others.

This Full‑time position is located in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.