Expert Infrastructure Engineer: Secure secret management and certificate management in automation: FTC: Pretoria

Desired Experience & Qualification

Expert Infrastructure Engineer: Secure secret management and certificate management in automation: FTC: Pretoria

Must have 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 (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).

• 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.

Advantageous Skills

• Familiarity with SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation frameworks.

• Knowledge of AWS platform services and cloud-native automation patterns (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, API Gateway).

• Experience with observability tooling and metrics for automation (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Familiarity with message brokers and pub/sub systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS).

• Experience with secure secret management and certificate management in automation (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault).

• 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, EKS).

• Experience with GitOps workflows and policy-as-code approaches (ArgoCD, Flux, OPA).

• Prior work building reusable automation libraries and developer-friendly APIs.

• Integrate with APIs, webhooks, and message-based systems (SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kafka) 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 6+ years hands-on experience in Automation Engineering (or closely related roles such as Site Reliability

• Engineering or Platform Engineering) with demonstrable automation ownership; strong Linux experience required.

• Proven track record delivering production-grade automation: Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD, Terraform/IaC and orchestration engines.

• Preferred certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; HashiCorp Certified: Terraform

• Associate; AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional); AWS Certified Developer – Associate: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.

• Strong problem-solving and solution-thinking mindset, process improvement orientation, attention to detail, curiosity, ownership and drive.

To Apply

Please email an updated/detailed CV: jino@aridconsulting.co.za

Please note communication will only be to shortlisted candidates

Interested?

To Apply: please email a detailed and updated cv to: jino@aridconsulting.co.za

Please note:  communication will only be with shortlisted candidates