Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading banking environment.

This is a hands-on role where you will focus on AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud platforms, and operational reliability. You will work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other engineers to build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable technology environments.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving technical problems, automating processes, and improving how development teams deliver software.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable software deployments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code
• Develop deployment, release, and environment management solutions
• Improve developer experience through reusable pipeline and deployment templates
• Integrate security and compliance requirements into pipelines and infrastructure
• Identify manual processes and implement automation to improve efficiency

AWS & Cloud Engineering

• Work hands-on with AWS cloud services in a large-scale banking environment
• Build and support workloads using services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, and Service Catalog
• Use AWS CDK as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool
• Work with CloudFormation, Ansible, and scripting where required
• Apply cloud networking concepts including security groups, DNS, TLS, routing, and load balancing
• Support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments

Reliability & Monitoring

• Improve system reliability, performance, and resilience
• Implement effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards
• Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues
• Support incident response and identify ways to prevent recurring issues
• Apply SRE principles to improve platform reliability where applicable
• Work with application teams to troubleshoot performance issues, including Java-based applications

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other technical stakeholders
• Provide technical guidance on DevOps, AWS, automation, and reliability practices
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
• Promote secure, automated, and repeatable delivery practices across teams

Requirements & Qualifications

Must-Have Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
• Experience with monitoring and observability across cloud or hybrid environments
• Experience working with Linux and Windows Server
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Technology Experience

AWS: EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog

Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, CloudFormation

CI/CD: Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or similar platforms

Monitoring & Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK

Scripting: Python and/or Bash

Other: Ansible, Zabbix, WebLogic 14c

Advantageous Experience

• Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles in production
• Experience in banking or financial services environments
• Experience working within PCI-DSS or other regulated environments
• Experience with low-latency Java applications • Experience with infrastructure performance troubleshooting
• Knowledge of security, audit, change control, and compliance requirements

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for someone who:

• Enjoys being hands-on with technology, automation, and infrastructure
• Takes ownership and is comfortable solving complex technical problems
• Understands the importance of security and operational reliability
• Works well with developers, architects, security teams, and business stakeholders
• Is proactive about improving processes and reducing manual work
• Can communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively

Certifications

AWS certifications are advantageous, particularly:

• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer / SysOps Administrator
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Additional Information:

Industry: Banking / Financial Services

Location: Johannesburg

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Rate: Competitive, market-related salary

Citizenship: South African citizenship is required