Job Description

SUMMARY:
DevOps Engineer - Century City / Hybrid - R720k PA
POSITION INFO:
To keep things running like a well-oiled CI/CD pipeline, we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can automate like a wizard, deploy like a boss, and sleep peacefully knowing monitoring is.
We're changing lives. We''re reimagining financial access across South Africa with tech that actually matters. Think payments, , and inclusion all rolled into one smart, secure platform.
Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments to ensure 99.9% uptime.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Optimize scalability, security, and performance of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.)
• Utilize monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana for system visibility and alerting
• Perform regular patching and upgrades based on the approved patch policy
• Plan and execute maintenance windows with minimal service disruption
• Address vulnerabilities using scan results (e.g., Rapid7) to ensure environment compliance
• Deploy approved GitLab pipelines into production based on JSM change requests.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field - or equivalent work experience.
• One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained):
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• AWS Certified Solutions

- Associate * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• LPI Linux Essentials
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Hands-on experience in managing production workloads in AWS.
• Proven expertise in Linux server administration
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.).
• Strong experience with Terraform and other IaC tools.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration (ECS a plus).
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar tools

Reference Number for this position is GZ60640 which is a permanent Hybrid position based in Century City offering a cost to company salary of R720k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on -merge.co.za or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.
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