Senior DevOps Engineer (Midrand)

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Location:	Midrand
Remote work:	Some remote work allowed
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#GZ61339
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based platforms within a regulated environment.

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer passionate about automation, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD optimisation, cloud operations, and operational reliability. You will play a key role in improving software delivery efficiency, platform stability, observability, and cloud governance across mission-critical systems.

Essential experience and skills:

7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
Strong focus on:

DevOps engineering
CI/CD automation
Infrastructure automation
Cloud operations

AWS certified SysOps administrator – associate
AWS certified solutions architect – associate
Strong AWS experience within enterprise-scale environments.
Experience working with PCI-DSS compliant systems or highly regulated industries.
Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines across large delivery organisations.
Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and workload automation capability.
Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions for hybrid and cloud environments.
Strong networking knowledge including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.
Understanding of the AWS well-architected framework and cloud best practices.
Strong Linux administration and scripting capability.

Preferred technologies:

Experience with some or all of the following:

AWS
Terraform / CloudFormation
Kubernetes / Docker
Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions
Python / Bash scripting
Prometheus / Grafana
ELK / OpenSearch
Ansible
GitOps tooling

Key responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple delivery teams.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management within AWS environments
Improve deployment reliability, release automation, and operational efficiency
Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions across hybrid and cloud-native platforms
Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and architecture teams to support reliable software delivery

Reference number for this position is GZ61339 which is a permanent position based in Midrand / Hybrid offering a cost to company salary of R1100k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 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 www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.

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Posted on 28 May 09:41, Closing date 27 Jul

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