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Biz Dev Ops Engineer

Job in Sandton, 2172, South Africa
Listing for: The Focus Group
Contract position Listed on 2026-09-23
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Position: Biz Dev Ops Engineer (Contract)

Job Purpose

The Senior Dev Ops & Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure, and automated technology platforms that support mission-critical business applications. The role combines software engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and operational excellence to improve system reliability, deployment velocity, platform resilience, and customer experience.

The incumbent will drive Dev Ops and SRE best practices across delivery teams, ensuring that systems are built, deployed, monitored, and operated efficiently while maintaining stringent availability, security, and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Automation
  • Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using modern automation frameworks.
  • Build reusable deployment templates, pipelines, and automation tooling.
  • Standardize platform engineering practices across teams.
  • Automate provisioning, configuration management, and operational processes.
Dev Ops & CI/CD
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting both application and infrastructure deployments.
  • Implement automated testing, security scanning, code quality controls, and release automation.
  • Drive continuous improvement of release management processes.
  • Enable fully automated deployment and rollback capabilities.
  • Improve deployment frequency while reducing deployment risk.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Establish reliability engineering practices and operational standards.
  • Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Improve system availability, performance, resilience, and scalability.
  • Lead incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis activities.
  • Drive proactive reliability improvements and technical debt reduction.
Cloud Operations
  • Design and manage cloud infrastructure environments.
  • Optimize performance, availability, security, and cost management.
  • Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where applicable.
Monitoring & Observability
  • Implement enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
  • Establish logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting standards.
  • Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
  • Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recover (MTTR).
  • Drive predictive monitoring and proactive issue detection.
Security & Compliance
  • Implement Dev Sec Ops  practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Support vulnerability management and remediation activities.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational security and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with security teams to improve platform security posture.
Leadership & Mentoring
  • Provide technical leadership across engineering teams.
  • Mentor Dev Ops, platform, cloud, and reliability engineers.
  • Promote engineering excellence and operational best practices.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technology roadmaps.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve engineering productivity.
Minimum Qualifications Preferred:
  • Bachelor's Degree in:
    • Computer Science
    • Information Technology
    • Software Engineering
    • Information Systems
    • Equivalent technical qualification
Minimum Experience
  • 8+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, Dev Ops, or platform engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on Dev Ops engineering experience.
  • 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations environments.
  • Proven experience managing mission-critical production systems.
  • Experience operating large-scale enterprise…
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