Job Description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

The Cloud Adoption Office is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud operations. Responsible for managing complex cloud environments, optimizing, and automation deployments while collaborating closely with cloud engineers, security engineers & cloud architects.
:Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solution. Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. Work with guilds and other technical SME's to improve and evolve technical products and services Apply version control and related concepts and techniques Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. Releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc. Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization technologies teams and make recommendations for improvements. 'Stay ahead' of business needs through proactive engagement with business leaders Oversee and manage AWS environments, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for proactive issue resolution (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, etc.). Design and implement full-stack observability strategies, ensuring end-to-end visibility across cloud environments, applications, and infrastructure using tools like OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray. Develop, deploy, and manage infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline. Work cross-functionally with DevOps, developers, and security teams to drive best practices and mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications & Experience10+ years of experience in IT, with a strong focus on cloud operation and engineering 7+ years of hands-on AWS experience managing large-scale production environments. Expertise in AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, and more. Strong DevOps and automation expertise using Terraform, Ansible, or other configuration management tools. Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Extensive experience with monitoring/logging solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog). Strong knowledge of observability best practices, including tracing, logging, and metrics collection. Strong knowledge of networking, security, and IAM best practices in AWS. Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and workflows. Experience in designing highly available and scalable architectures. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised