DevOps Engineer – Johannesburg, Pretoria or Cape Town

About the role

Our client is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high‑performing technology environment. This intermediate‑to‑senior position is ideal for a technically versatile professional with strong cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and operational support experience.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Support containerised workloads on serverless and Kubernetes‑based platforms.
• Provide Level 2 technical support, investigate incidents and perform root‑cause analysis.
• Troubleshoot availability, performance and capacity challenges across environments.
• Develop scripts, automation tools, reports and visualisation solutions.
• Implement configuration‑management practices with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting and operational visibility for infrastructure and applications.

Required profile

• BSc degree or equivalent qualification.
• At least 4 years of relevant DevOps or cloud engineering experience.
• Proven experience implementing CI/CD and release automation.
• Strong Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep).
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.

Required skills

• AWS
• Azure
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Bicep
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Azure DevOps
• ArgoCD
• Kubernetes
• Serverless platforms
• Ansible
• Puppet
• Chef
• Salt
• Java
• .NET
• Scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell)