DevOps Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

The Role

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with strong experience in CI/CD, release automation, cloud infrastructure, and operational support across development, test, and production environments.

You will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining reliable deployment pipelines and cloud infrastructure, while ensuring system stability, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (pipeline-as-code)
• Manage deployment automation across multiple environments
• Support ArgoCD (or equivalent GitOps tools) for deployments
• Implement integrations requested by internal and client teams
• Provide Level 2 technical support for production and non-production systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and recurring issues
• Build automation tools to improve reliability and reduce operational risk
• Monitor system health, performance, availability, and capacity
• Develop scripts for automation, reporting, and operational efficiency
• Support release and deployment management processes
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, application, and database issues
• Define and improve operational procedures and best practices
• Apply shift-left security principles in delivery pipelines

Requirements

• BSc degree or equivalent qualification
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in DevOps or cloud engineering
• Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Experience in production support and incident resolution
• Background in development or strong systems/operations engineering experience

Technical Requirements

Cloud Platforms

• Experience with AWS or Azure, including core services such as:
• AWS: VPC, S3, RDS, EC2, IAM, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway
• Azure: VNet, Storage Accounts, SQL Database, Virtual Machines, Entra ID, Functions, Front Door, API Management
• Understanding of Well-Architected Frameworks is required.

DevOps & CI/CD

• CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps)
• GitOps tools such as ArgoCD (or similar)
• Pipeline-as-code practices

Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep)
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt or similar)
• Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or serverless platforms)

Operations & Support

• System administration across distributed environments
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools
• Incident management and problem resolution
• Performance, availability, and capacity troubleshooting

Development & Scripting

• Strong scripting capability (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Exposure to Java or .NET preferred
• Ability to build automation and operational tooling
• Database scripting for maintenance, fixes, and data extraction

How to Apply

Apply Now at https://careerjunction.co.za/apply/2637750