Senior DevOps Engineer

7 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Blue Pearl Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year
Job Description
What you'll do:
  • Assess the current pipeline and infrastructure setup; recommend and implement improvements aligned with industry best practices.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR).
  • Build and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and increase IaC maturity across the environment.
  • Automate deployments, provisioning, monitoring, and incident response processes.
  • Enable developer productivity by reducing deployment friction, providing templates, scripts, and self-service tooling.
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy serverless applications (AWS Lambda) and containerised workloads (ECS/Fargate).
  • Improve observability using monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK stack).
  • Work with microservices architecture (Aurora Postgres backend, ECS containers, modular reusable services).
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
Requirements

Your Expertise:
  • Strong practical AWS experience (S3, ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ECR, IAM, Redis, VPC, Parameter Store/Secrets Manager, WAF).
  • Solid knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, ECS; Kubernetes experience beneficial though not in current use).
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
  • Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
  • Experience designing/building CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure from scratch.
  • Familiarity with Java/Tomcat applications (bonus).
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, X-Ray).
  • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to stabilise infrastructure under scale.
  • AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar).
  • 3-5 years' experience implementing AWS automation pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Step Functions, certificate automation.
Attributes:
  • Tenacious and results-driven with the ability to build and manage infrastructure from scratch.
  • Data-driven engineering mindset.
  • Strong communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Self-motivated, collaborative, and able to mentor others.

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