Specialist: DevOps Infrastructure

About the role

The Specialist – DevOps Infrastructure will design, develop and continuously improve secure automation capabilities that enable Zero Touch Operations across on‑premise, private‑cloud and public‑cloud environments. The role focuses on delivering reusable automation patterns, infrastructure‑as‑code practices and governed self‑service workflows to boost reliability, compliance and operational efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build enterprise automation and orchestration solutions that move teams toward Zero Touch Operations.
• Create reusable automation patterns, workflow templates and integration standards for safe self‑service execution.
• Develop, test and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code, configuration‑as‑code and workflow automation that integrates with cloud platforms, APIs, repositories and pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance, enablement and escalation support for production automation, including exception handling and auditability.
• Maintain automation documentation, coding standards, runbooks and knowledge‑sharing material to improve adoption and supportability.

Required profile

• Grade 12 and a 3‑year bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
• 3‑5 years of experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps or cloud automation.
• Practical experience with workflow automation, orchestration, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, ITSM tools, APIs and operational monitoring systems.
• Experience automating Windows and Linux server operating systems, including provisioning, configuration, patching and compliance.

Required skills

• Ansible Automation Platform (or equivalent automation tooling).
• Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Windows Server and Linux operating system automation.
• Virtualization technologies.
• IT Service Management (ITSM) tools.
• API integration and event‑driven automation.