Senior DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:
Are you a seasoned DevOps Engineer with a passion for driving impactful transformation within the financial sector? We are partnering with a prestigious financial institution to find a Senior DevOps Engineer for a 12-month renewable contract.

The main purpose of this role is to lead, plan, organise, and control resources across several strategic projects, ensuring successful delivery of project scope and objectives—on time, within budget, and to specification. You’ll play a key role in aligning infrastructure and automation efforts with broader programme goals, all within a high-performing, collaborative environment that values innovation and excellence.

POSITION INFO:
Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or an equivalent NQF7 qualification;
• 8 years working experience as a DevOps Engineer;
• Industry, organisational and business awareness;

• Working experience in building and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI & CD) pipelines;
• Experience in design, deployment, configuration and maintaining RedHat OpenShift clusters;
• Linux experience a must;
• A working knowledge of various tools and open-source technologies;
• A good knowledge of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles;
• Extensive experience in GitLab, GitHub, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Kibana, Grafana, SAST, DAST, Sonarcube, 3scales, Kafka, Jfrog;
• Experience in implementing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic or similar to monitor application performance metrics, including response times throughput adn resource utilization
• Experience supporting databases and pipeline platforms, Informatica IICS & TeraData, Oracle, Postgres;
• Bash scripting and Ansible automation;
• A solid understanding of configuring and managing databases;
• A problem solving mindset;
• A spirit of teamwork and cooperation;
• Excellent troubleshooting skills;
• Good communication skills for dealing with management, stakeholders and clients;

• Source code management: GitLab/GitHub;
• Developing CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins and GitLab ArgoCD or similar;
• Testing: Selenium or similar;
• Containerization: OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes or similar;
• Configuration Managment: Puppet and Chef or similar;
• Monitoring: AppDynamics/Prometheus or similar;

• Strong collaboration with the Programme teams to understand the software requirements to design and implement different environments and DevOps solutions;
• Design, implement and maintain the orchestration platform considering scalability;
• Eliminate waste by automating relevant tasks throughout the software development lifecycle;
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and perform any configuration management;
• Implement and manage monitor and logging;
• Close collaboration with the Product and Program teams to resolve both non-production and production issues;
• Manage all activities and checklists for releases;
• Troubleshooting environment issues and limiting downtime through proactive monitoring;
• Define and implement DevOps culture within the team and be an ambassador for DevOps culture;
• Define and maintain documentation for knowledge sharing purposes and to eliminate key man dependencies;
• Reduce costs by continuously monitoring the environment and identifying areas where costs can be saved;
• Embed security controls in the software development life cycle
• Defining and establishing test, development, release, update, and support processes for the organization’s DevOps operations;
• Enhance the IT infrastructure’s security protocols by identifying and deploying needed cybersecurity measures by continuously conducting vulnerability assessment and risk management procedures;
• Understanding customer requirements, monitoring, and measuring customer experience and their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);
• Managing stakeholders and associated external interfaces;
• Managing periodic reporting on project progress to the management, stakeholders, and customers.