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You will own the build, automation, and operational tooling that delivery teams rely on every day CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, configuration management, and the developer experience that surrounds them.\nThis is an engineering role first. You will spend the majority of your time in code and configuration: writing pipelines, building automation, hardening environments, and removing manual toil from the path to production. You will work alongside developers, architects, security engineers, and platform teams to keep delivery flowing reliably inside a regulated, PCI-DSS environment.\nSite Reliability Engineering experience is a strong advantage. You will use it to push the platform further sharper observability, better incident response, lower failure domains, and resilience patterns built into the way services are deployed and run. \nWhat you'll do:\nCore DevOps Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that move code from commit to production safely and repeatably across the delivery estate.\nAutomate AWS workload provisioning and configuration deployment using infrastructure as code, with environments that are reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.\nBuild and operate the deployment automation, release tooling, and environment management that delivery squads depend on day to day.\nHarden the developer experience repository templates, pipeline templates, deployment patterns, and self-service tooling that reduce friction without weakening control.\nIntegrate security and compliance controls into pipelines and infrastructure secrets management, access control, change traceability.\nTranslate business and technical requirements into scalable, automated delivery solutions that align to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.\nAWS & Platform Engineering\nWork hands-on across an AWS estate, integrating cloud-native services with on-premises systems where the banking environment requires it.\nBuild and operate workloads across EC2, RDS (EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, and Service Catalog.\nUse AWS CDK as the primary infrastructure-as-code tool, with CloudFormation, Ansible, and scripting languages applied where they fit best.\nApply networking fundamentals routing, segmentation, security groups, DNS, TLS, and load balancing to design environments that are both secure and operable.\nSupport the operational lifecycle of platform services the wider engineering organisation depends on, including identity, messaging, and application server tiers where present.\nSite Reliability Depth\nWhere SRE skills are present, the role expands to include the following. These responsibilities are not the primary requirement but will materially strengthen the contribution of an engineer who brings them.\nIdentify and reduce failure domains across the platform, designing systems that contain blast radius and recover gracefully from partial failure.\nApply SRE principles SLOs, post-incident learning to improve reliability, performance, and the team's response to production issues.\nEnhance observability across environments through stronger monitoring, structured logging, useful alerting, and dashboards that surface what matters during an incident.\nTroubleshoot and optimise low-latency, Java-based applications in production, working alongside application engineers to resolve issues at the system\nBuild automation that minimises business impact during maintenance and failures, and that reduces the operational load carried by delivery teams.\nCollaboration & Mentorship\nContribute as a strong technical voice in a cross-functional team alongside Architects, Engineers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Security partners.\nMentor engineers across the team on DevOps practice, AWS engineering, automation, and where applicable SRE principles through pairing, code review, and worked examples.\nDrive collaboration across squads, lifting the standard of automation, observability, and operational discipline beyond the immediate team.\nChampion delivery excellence secure, automated, observable, and repeatable as the default way of working.\n\nYour Expertise &Qualifications:\nEssential Experience\n7+ years hands-on experience in a DevOps or SRE role, with a clear weighting toward DevOps engineering, automation, and CI/CD delivery.\nHands-on experience in AWS environment, preferably in financial services with PCI-DSS compliant systems.\nDemonstrable track record implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas of a delivery organisation.\nStrong AWS workload automation experience covering infrastructure provisioning and software configuration rollout.\nPractical experience implementing observability for hybrid and cloud-based environments.\nStrong working knowledge of networking principles and protocols.\nWorking understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how to apply it in practice.\nAdvantageous Experience\nDemonstrable experience with Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices in production environments.\nTroubleshooting low-latency, Java-based applications in an SRE context and infrastructure-level performance investigation.\nExperience operating inside an audit-heavy regulated environment beyond PCI-DSS change control, evidence capture, segregation of duties.\nWays of Working\nA hands-on engineer at heart most effective when the work is in pipelines, code, and configuration rather than in process documents.\nPragmatic about automation automates what matters, leaves what doesn't, and knows the difference.\nStrong collaborator across engineering, security, and operations, with the ability to translate technical decisions into language non-engineers can act on.\nHolds the line on operational and security discipline without becoming a blocker to delivery.\nTechnology and Tooling\nEssential\nAWS Services: EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog.\nAWS CDK.\nObservability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk or AppDynamics, ELK.\nCI/CD platforms (Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or equivalent).\nOperating Systems: Linux and Windows Server.\nPreferred\nPython scripting.\nAWS CloudFormation.\nBash scripting.\nOptional\nZabbix monitoring.\nWebLogic 14c.\nCertifications (Beneficial)\nAWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer).\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.\n\nOther information applicable to the opportunity:\nLocation: Sandton\nWork Policies: Hybrid - 3 Days in office (Client Based)\n\nWhy work for us?\nWant to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.\nYou will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.\nOur culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.\nBy joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.\niOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. 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