Senior DevOps Engineer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITE008016/Sfund

Date posted:

Monday, August 31, 2026

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

SUMMARY:

Are you a seasoned DevOps professional passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms? We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a critical hands-on role in shaping, operating, and continuously improving modern cloud environments and delivery pipelines within a fast-growing, technology-driven business.
This is an opportunity to work alongside Cloud Architects, Infrastructure Leaders, Software Engineers, and Security Specialists, helping drive automation, reliability, security, and operational excellence across critical platforms.

POSITION INFO:
What You'll Do Build, manage, and optimise cloud infrastructure across production, staging, and development environments. Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, CI\/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. Improve platform performance, scalability, security, and resilience. Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities. Support backup, disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity initiatives. Champion DevSecOps practices, vulnerability management, patching, and secure platform configurations. Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment efficiency and operational reliability. Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to infrastructure and developer experience. Contribute to agile delivery teams and continuous improvement initiatives. Technical Environment You'll work with a modern technology stack that includes: AWS Cloud (Azure and GCP exposure advantageous) Terraform Docker & Kubernetes Argo CD GitLab CI, GitHub Actions & Jenkins Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack & Loki Ansible, Puppet or Chef Python, Bash or Ruby NGINX & Apache MySQL & PostgreSQL RabbitMQ DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, Proxies & Core Networking Technologies What We're Looking For 7+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or a related field. Strong hands-on AWS experience. Solid Linux administration experience in production environments. Proven expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation. Experience designing and supporting secure, compliant environments. Exposure to PCI-DSS and\/or ISO27001 environments will be advantageous. Strong understanding of DevOps principles, agile delivery, and cloud-native technologies. Experience within FinTech, technology, or other high-growth environments preferred. Key Competencies Strong problem-solving and analytical skills Excellent communication and collaboration abilities High attention to detail and operational excellence Proactive risk identification and mitigation mindset Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments Why Consider This Opportunity? Join a highly skilled technology team where you'll have the opportunity to influence cloud strategy, drive automation at scale, strengthen platform security, and help engineering teams deliver world-class solutions in a complex, high-availability environment. Key Responsibilities: Job Experience and skill required Apply now! For more IT jobs, please visit I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Development Data Engineer Data Analyst Infrastructure Architecture ... and more! If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information contact: Sfundo Shoba

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