Biz DevOps Engineer Intermediate: Banking: Sandton: 12 Months FTC

The Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure, and automated technology platforms that support mission-critical business applications. The role combines software engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and operational excellence to improve system reliability, deployment velocity, platform resilience, and customer experience.

The incumbent will drive DevOps and SRE best practices across delivery teams, ensuring that systems are built, deployed, monitored, and operated efficiently while maintaining stringent availability, security, and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Automation

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.

Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using modern automation frameworks.

Build reusable deployment templates, pipelines, and automation tooling.

Standardize platform engineering practices across teams.

Automate provisioning, configuration management, and operational processes.

DevOps & CI/CD

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting both application and infrastructure deployments.

Implement automated testing, security scanning, code quality controls, and release automation.

Drive continuous improvement of release management processes.

Enable fully automated deployment and rollback capabilities.

Improve deployment frequency while reducing deployment risk.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Establish reliability engineering practices and operational standards.

Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Improve system availability, performance, resilience, and scalability.

Lead incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis activities.

Drive proactive reliability improvements and technical debt reduction.

Cloud Operations

Design and manage cloud infrastructure environments.

Optimize performance, availability, security, and cost management.

Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.

Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where applicable.

Monitoring & Observability

Implement enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.

Establish logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting standards.

Build operational dashboards and platform insights.

Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recover (MTTR).

Drive predictive monitoring and proactive issue detection.

Security & Compliance

Implement DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.

Support vulnerability management and remediation activities.

Ensure compliance with organizational security and regulatory requirements.

Collaborate with security teams to improve platform security posture.

Leadership & Mentoring

Provide technical leadership across engineering teams.

Mentor DevOps, platform, cloud, and reliability engineers.

Promote engineering excellence and operational best practices.

Contribute to architectural decisions and technology roadmaps.

Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve engineering productivity.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in:

Computer Science

Information Technology

Software Engineering

Information Systems

Equivalent technical qualification

Minimum Experience

8+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.

5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.

3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations environments.

Proven experience managing mission-critical production systems.

Experience operating large-scale enterprise platforms.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure App Services

Azure Networking

Azure Monitor

Azure Storage

Azure Identity Services

Exposure to AWS and Google Cloud is advantageous.

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

Artifactory

Nexus

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Ansible

Containerisation & Orchestration

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenShift (advantageous)

Observability

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic Stack

Splunk

Azure Monitor

OpenTelemetry

Programming & Scripting

Python

PowerShell

Bash

C#

Java

Go (advantageous)

Core Competencies

Technical Competencies

Cloud Architecture

Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure Automation

Continuous Delivery

DevSecOps

Systems Integration

Capacity Planning

Performance Optimization

Incident Management

Behavioural Competencies

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Decision Making

Stakeholder Management

Innovation

Continuous Improvement

Coaching and Mentoring

Customer Centricity

Accountability

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Platform availability targets

SLO/SLA compliance

Deployment success rate

Change failure rate

Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)

Mean Time to Recover (MTTR)

Automation coverage

Security and compliance adherence

Cost optimization targets

Engineering productivity improvements

Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

ITIL Foundation

SRE Foundation Certification

Ideal Candidate Profile

An experienced engineering professional who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and operations. The successful candidate will possess deep technical expertise, a strong automation mindset, and a passion for building reliable, secure, scalable platforms while enabling engineering teams to deliver business value rapidly and safely.

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