DevOps Engineer – Century City / Hybrid – R720k PA

e-Merge IT Recruitment

  • Johannesburg, Gauteng
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 30 days ago
SUMMARY:
DevOps Engineer - Century City / Hybrid - R720k PAPOSITION INFO:To keep things running like a well-oiled CI/CD pipeline, we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can automate like a wizard, deploy like a boss, and sleep peacefully knowing monitoring is.We’re changing lives. We''re reimagining financial access across South Africa with tech that actually matters. Think payments, , and inclusion all rolled into one smart, secure platform.Responsibilities:
  • Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments to ensure 99.9% uptime.
  • Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Optimize scalability, security, and performance of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.)
  • Utilize monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana for system visibility and alerting
  • Perform regular patching and upgrades based on the approved patch policy
  • Plan and execute maintenance windows with minimal service disruption
  • Address vulnerabilities using scan results (e.g., Rapid7) to ensure environment compliance
  • Deploy approved GitLab pipelines into production based on JSM change requests.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field – or equivalent work experience.
  • One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained):
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions
– Associate * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • LPI Linux Essentials
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator
  • Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
  • Hands-on experience in managing production workloads in AWS.
  • Proven expertise in Linux server administration
  • Advanced knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.).
  • Strong experience with Terraform and other IaC tools.
  • Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration (ECS a plus).
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar tools
Reference Number for this position is GZ60640 which is a permanent Hybrid position based in Century City offering a cost to company salary of R720k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on -merge.co.za or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.Are you ready for a change of scenery? The e-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge website

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