Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Recruiter:

Optim-G Sourcing

Job Ref:

PTA000054/IK

Date posted:

Monday, May 26, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
We Require a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer for a Contract to Perm position in Parktown.

Important: Must be willing to work from 6am - 14:00pm -as resource will report to team in Australia. (Between 6-9am daily have Stand up meetings)

POSITION INFO:
Looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer.

Must have at least 5 years exp in writing in Bicep
Must have at least 10 years exp in Powershell as programming language. Must be able to write conditions, do error handling and permissioning.
Must have at least 10 years exp with Servers; Dell, HP, Cisco Switches and Rooters.
Must have Good Terraform experience and Good experience with YAML pipelines.

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will have primary responsibility for operations engineering to deliver ongoing operational and business initiative outcomes. You will be providing DevOps technical support to your team and other IT product teams to deliver services and changes across the IT ecosystem, which includes third-party cloud hosted IT platforms, in-house managed cloud, and local data centre IT platforms.

Knowledge acquired awareness and/or experience

Minimum at least 5yrs years or more with Azure cloud infrastructure setup and Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
Minimum 5 years of experience in Azure Cloud DevOps engineer role with Bicep.
Experience with various DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies.
Experience with CI/CD and related toolsets, good understanding with Azure DevOps.
Experience with operations integrations (e.g., system integrations via API, file transfer, etc.).
Experience in Agile framework supporting CI/CD processes.
Experience with infrastructure and network management (e.g., system patching, middleware upgrade, monitoring, etc.)
Experience with local data centre resource management and setup.
Basic understanding of security and vulnerability management (e.g., firewall configuration, endpoint upgrade, security patching, etc).
Industry / business knowledge of the Australian Insurance market (preferably with experience

Qualifications (Formal study undertaken and completed)

Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or related Technology discipline preferred.
Azure and/or DevOps related certifications are highly desirable.

Full spec will be provided.

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