DevOps Engineer (Mid - Senior) - (Cape Town – Hybrid)

Recruiter:

Datafin IT Recruitment

Job Ref:

1589725064

Date posted:

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
-

POSITION INFO:

ENVIRONMENT:

A Company who builds and scales AI, SaaS and Talent platforms, is looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong experience in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud-native environments. You will be responsible for automating infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable systems.

DUTIES:

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized environments
Automate deployment and scaling processes
Ensure system reliability, monitoring, and alerting
Collaborate with development teams to improve workflows
Optimize performance and cloud costs

REQUIREMENTS:

Core Technologies

Cloud: AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
Infrastructure: Terraform
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS DevOps tools

Core Requirements

3–5+ years’ experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
Experience with Docker and containerization
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Strong problem-solving skills
Strong English communication

Certifications (Preferred)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
AWS DevOps Engineer certification

Education

BSc Computer Science / IT or HBO/WO Informatica

Nice-to-Have

Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
Security best practices
Experience in SaaS or product environments

Similar jobs you might be interested in:

DevOps Engineer (Mid - Senior) - (Cape Town – Hybrid)
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Today

Cloud DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Our client is looking for a senior Cloud devops engineer to help tend, grow, and protect their modern cloud pastures. This role sits right at the heart of the farm, making sure the systems are wellâirrigated, securely fenced, and always producing healthy yields.You’ll be the kind of engineer who knows when to automate the tractor, how to keep the herd moving smoothly, and how to spot a pro...
Today

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Our clients are always looking for skilled Cloud devops engineer (AWS) to work closely with their development and data teams to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high performing cloud environments.
12 days ago

DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Our clients are always looking for skilled Cloud devops engineer (AWS) to work closely with their development and data teams to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high performing cloud environments.
18 days ago

DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
20 days ago

AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary: Market related
As an AWS Cloud/devops engineer you will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS in
21 days ago

DevOps Engineer
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Our clients are always actively looking for devops engineers to support high performing engineering teams working on scalable, cloud-based platforms. If you are passionate about automation, reliability and modern infrastructure, we would like to hear from you.
27 days ago

Lead DevOps Engineer (GCP)
Location: Capetown
Salary: Market-related
Drive reliability and scalability across production environments by leading an SRE team and implementing monitoring, automation, and devops practices on Google Cloud Platform. South Africa (Remote), R135 000 - R145 000 pm
14 days ago

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (JHB/Stellenbosch)
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
56 days ago

Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer (Azure) (CPT)
Location: Cape Town
Salary:
Today