Job Description

DevOps Engineer (Linux & Azure)
Cape Town
A leading independent asset manager is seeking to hire a DevOps Engineer to support and evolve their hybrid infrastructure environment with a focus on Linux systems.
This role is central to maintaining and advancing automation, deployment processes, and operational efficiency across a diverse technology landscape. The successful candidate will contribute to infrastructure-as-code initiatives, CI/CD pipeline development, container orchestration, and system reliability, working closely with cross-functional teams. The position supports both legacy and modern workloads, requiring fluency in Linux environments and familiarity with Windows systems.
Duties and responsibilities

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for both Windows (.NET) and Linux workloads (native and Kubernetes)
• Maintain automation scripts such as Ansible (Linux) and PowerShell (Windows)
• Maintain shared services such as message queueing, object storage, logging infrastructure, and reverse proxies
• Support deployment and scaling of containerized workloads on Kubernetes
• Manage configuration, provisioning, and patching of servers using infrastructure-as-code principles
• Support Windows servers running .NET APIs
• Administer Linux-based VMs hosting shared services
• Ensure health monitoring, performance tuning, and log aggregation
• Maintain and optimize RDBMS databases from a DevOps perspective (backups, performance monitoring, automation)
• Implement observability stack--monitoring, alerting, and logging standards across all systems
• Contribute to security hardening, secrets management, and patch compliance
• Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory controls
• Work closely with software engineers, system administrators, and QA to improve software delivery processes
• Participate in sprint planning, release coordination, and incident response
• Provide technical guidance on best practices for DevOps tooling and automation

Requirements

• 3 to 6 years of DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related experience
• Strong experience in Linux server administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, or equivalent)
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.), containerization (Docker), and Shell scripting (Bash)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts (deployments, services, ingress, Helm)
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, Git repositories, and board workflows
• Competent with Windows administration and PowerShell scripting
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and reverse proxy configurations (nginx, HAProxy)
• Experience integrating and managing observability tools such as Graylog, Prometheus, or Grafana
• Basic SQL Server management and automation experience
• Strong working knowledge of financial instruments, settlement conventions, and post-trade processes
• A completed Information Systems or Computer Science degree, or relevant BTech Degree

Nice to haves

• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with object storage (S3, MinIO, etc.) and message brokers (RabbitMQ)
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices for .NET and containerized applications
• Previous experience in environments transitioning to Kubernetes
• Previous experience in asset management or wealth management industry
• Further postgraduate studies
• Relevant certifications (RHCE, CKAD, Azure DevOps Engineer, etc.)

Skills Required