Infrastructure Engineer (Expert)

Reference: JHB001571-ZN-1

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strong proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and tooling development.
• Advanced Bash/Linux shell skills with comfort operating and troubleshooting in Linux environments.
• Experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and orchestration tools such as Ansible.
• Expertise in API integration and automation (RESTful APIs, webhooks, message-based integrations).
• Experience implementing automated testing including API testing and automated regression testing.
• Proven ability to design idempotent automation, retries, compensation patterns and robust error handling.
• Experience with workflow and orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, AWS Step Functions) and
• event-driven orchestration.
• Strong debugging, monitoring and operational skills to run and maintain automation in production; instruments
• automation with metrics, structured logs and traces and defines SLOs.
• Test-driven automation: experience building unit/integration tests, contract tests and CI/CD pipelines for automation artifacts and runbooks.
• Contract-first design and compatibility: experience versioning interfaces (OpenAPI, Avro, Protobuf) and enforcing consumer-producer contracts.

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS

• Familiarity with SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation frameworks.
• Knowledge of Azure platform services and cloud-native automation patterns.
• Experience with observability tooling and metrics for automation (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, log aggregation).
• Familiarity with message brokers and pub/sub systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with secure secret management and certificate management in automation.
• Background in security automation and Zero Trust integrations.
• Experience designing for high-availability, scalability and fault-tolerance in orchestration systems.
• Familiarity with container platforms and deployment automation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with GitOps workflows and policy-as-code approaches.
• Prior work building reusable automation libraries and developer-friendly APIs.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and operate run-time automation and orchestration that integrates Zero Trust interfaces, APIs and multiple data sources.
• Automate repetitive, testable and operational activities across workflows, infrastructure, deployments and runbooks.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions to deliver automation artifacts reliably.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible) to provision and manage environments.
• Develop and maintain Python and Bash automation tooling, scripts and reusable libraries.
• Design and operate workflow orchestration solutions (Temporal, Camunda, Step Functions) for event-driven and long-running processes.
• Create and maintain SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation playbooks to reduce manual incident response.
• Implement robust testing strategies including API testing and automated regression testing for automation outputs.
• Ensure idempotency, retry, compensation and error handling patterns are applied across orchestrations and integrations.
• Integrate with APIs, webhooks, and message-based systems to enable end-to-end automated flows.
• Define, document and meet operational SLAs (availability, latency, MTTR) for automation services and maintain capacity plans.
• Own automation alerting, runbooks and participate in incident response/on-call rotations to ensure rapid remediation
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize automation in production; perform root cause analysis for failures and continuously improve reliability.
• Identify automation opportunities, improve processes and drive adoption of automation best practices

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Ext ensive hands-on experience (typically 6+ years) in automation engineering, DevOps or similar roles withstrong Linux experience.
• Proven track record delivering production-grade automation: Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD, Terraform/IaC and orchestration engines.
• Strong problem-solving and solution-thinking mindset, process improvement orientation, attention to detail, curiosity, ownership and drive.

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