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Senior DevOps Engineer

Job in Sandton, 2172, South Africa
Listing for: iDbase Software
Full Time position Listed on 2026-09-23

Job Description & How to Apply Below

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join a leading banking environment.

This is a hands-on role where you will focus on AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud platforms, and operational reliability
. You will work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other engineers to build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable technology environments.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving technical problems, automating processes, and improving how development teams deliver software.

Key Responsibilities Dev Ops  & Automation
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable software deployments
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code
  • Develop deployment, release, and environment management solutions
  • Improve developer experience through reusable pipeline and deployment templates
  • Integrate security and compliance requirements into pipelines and infrastructure
  • Identify manual processes and implement automation to improve efficiency
AWS & Cloud Engineering
  • Work hands-on with AWS cloud services in a large-scale banking environment
  • Build and support workloads using services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, and Service Catalog
  • Use AWS CDK as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool
  • Work with Cloud Formation, Ansible, and scripting where required
  • Apply cloud networking concepts including security groups, DNS, TLS, routing, and load balancing
  • Support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments
Reliability & Monitoring
  • Improve system reliability, performance, and resilience
  • Implement effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards
  • Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues
  • Support incident response and identify ways to prevent recurring issues
  • Apply SRE principles to improve platform reliability where applicable
  • Work with application teams to troubleshoot performance issues, including Java-based applications
Collaboration & Mentorship
  • Work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other technical stakeholders
  • Provide technical guidance on Dev Ops, AWS, automation, and reliability practices
  • Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
  • Promote secure, automated, and repeatable delivery practices across teams
Requirements & Qualifications Must-Have Experience
  • 7+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or a similar engineering role
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS
  • Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK
  • Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
  • Experience with monitoring and observability across cloud or hybrid environments
  • Experience working with Linux and Windows Server
  • Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Technology Experience
  • AWS: EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Cloud Formation
  • CI/CD: Harness, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, or similar platforms
  • Monitoring & Observability: AWS Cloud Watch, Splunk, App Dynamics, ELK
  • Scripting: Python and/or Bash
  • Other: Ansible, Zabbix, Web Logic 14c
Advantageous Experience
  • Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles in production
  • Experience in banking or financial services environments
  • Experience working within PCI-DSS or other regulated environments
  • Experience with low-latency Java applications
  • Experience with infrastructure performance troubleshooting
  • Knowledge of security, audit, change control, and compliance requirements
What We're Looking For

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Position Requirements

10+ Years work experience
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