DevOps Engineer (Intermediate)

Recruiter:

Pillango Placements

Job Ref:

PTA003703/MM

Date posted:

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Big impact. Serious tech.

Help drive a modern DevOps capability in an independent unit within a leading financial services group. Hybrid working with flexibility and trust.

POSITION INFO:
A key summary of the role is outlined below. A more comprehensive job specification with full details is available after initial contact and a successful CV review.

Role: Intermediate DevOps Engineer (CIT) focused on building and improving scalable, automated, reliable, secure, high-quality systems and integrations.

Core Purpose:

Implement customer integrations and improve customer experience
Root-cause analysis of production errors, resolve issues, and reduce repeat incidents
Design troubleshooting and maintenance procedures and build tools to lower error rates

Key Responsibilities:

Application Software Development: Enhance existing apps and build new routine applications to meet customer needs
Application Software Roadmap: Contribute and maintain road map to facilitate application software development and prioritise aligned to business needs
Data Driven Product and Service Improvement: Research data from digital product/service performance, customer behaviour, and market trends to identify opportunities for product/service improvement
Produce concepts/prototypes and deliver features within established engineering systems
Product/Service Development
Digital Marketing Plan Execution
Support customer and market research by performing customer and market research and analysis techniques
Perform testing, monitoring, diagnosis, and performance correction (web/app)
Fault isolation and resolution for complex issues

Skills:

Action Planning
Assessment
Planning and Organising
Application Development
Data Collection and Analysis
IT Testing
Product Development
Customer and Market Analysis
IT Data Management
Market Research and Analysis
Project Management
Marketing Commercialisation

Required Experience & Tech

3 – 6 years with: Rancher 2.5+, Kubernetes, Linux (Essential)
Azure DevOps experience (Essential)
Agile/Scrum understanding (Essential)
Advantageous: .NET, Angular, React, Node
Up to 1 year experience supervising junior colleagues (Essential)

Education

Relevant Tertiary / Post Graduate Qualification

Behavioural Expectations

Innovative, customer-focused, strong decision-making and accountability
Comfortable with complexity/ambiguity; plans well; communicates clearly; delivers results

Package:

The salary is open for discussion and will be market related in line with your qualifications, skills and experience.

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