Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure

Praesignis · Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to join a team responsible for building and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure and automated technology platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

Design and maintain cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.
Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code IaC and automation solutions.
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
Drive SRE practices, including reliability, resilience, incident management and continuous improvement.
Implement monitoring, observability and proactive performance management.
Champion DevSecOps, security and compliance across the delivery lifecycle.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Minimum Requirements

8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
3+ years in SRE or production operations environments.
Proven experience supporting mission-critical enterprise production systems.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field is preferred.

Technical Skills

Strong hands-on experience with

Microsoft Azure & AKS
Azure DevOps & GitHub Enterprise
Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates & Ansible
Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory/Nexus
Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Elastic Stack & Azure Monitor
Python, PowerShell and Bash
CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure and automation
Advantageous: OpenShift, AWS/GCP, Go and relevant Azure/Kubernetes/Terraform certifications.

Preferred Certifications