Specialist: DevOps Infrastructure

Role Purpose/Business Unit

• To design, develop, and continuously improve secure infrastructure automation capabilities that enable Zero Touch Operations across on-premise platforms, private cloud, public cloud, and operational technology teams.
• The role accelerates delivery through reusable automation patterns, infrastructure-as-code practices, integration standards, and governed self-service workflows that improve reliability, consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Your responsibilities will include

• Designing and building enterprise automation and orchestration capabilities that move operational teams towards Zero Touch Operations across on-premise infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and platform services.
• Creating reusable automation patterns, workflow templates, integration standards, and common services that enable safe, standardised, self-service execution with minimal manual intervention.
• Developing, testing, and maintaining infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and workflow automation that integrates with systems, cloud platforms, APIs, repositories, pipelines, and operational toolsets.
• Providing technical guidance, enablement, and escalation support for production automation, including exception handling, failure remediation, access controls, auditability, and operational resilience.
• Maintaining automation documentation, coding standards, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing material to improve adoption, supportability, compliance, and reuse across teams.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Grade 12 is essential.
• A 3 year bachelor's degree/diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technology field is essential.
• 3-5 years relevant experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud automation.
• Relevant vendor or professional certifications aligned to automation, cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations are desirable; equivalent practical experience will be considered.

Practical experience should include

• Workflow automation and orchestration using enterprise automation platforms or equivalent tooling.
• Integration with virtualisation, operating systems, containers, private cloud, public cloud, Kubernetes-based platforms, ITSM tools, APIs, and operational monitoring systems.
• Server operating system automation for Windows and Linux, including provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance checks, and lifecycle operations.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code across hybrid environments.
• Experience with enterprise automation platforms, including Ansible Automation Platform or equivalent tooling, configuration management, event-driven automation, and governed self-service execution.
• Strong software engineering practices, including Python, scripting, source control, testing, modular design, peer review, and CI/CD or GitOps integration.
• Ability to design reusable automation frameworks and standard execution patterns that reduce manual intervention and advance Zero Touch Operations.
• Good understanding of secure production operations, including ITIL, Agile delivery, access controls, change governance, auditability, compliance evidence, and operational resilience.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to coach engineers, shape standards, promote reuse, and guide teams through automation adoption.

AI-Enabled Leadership and Delivery

• Demonstrates the ability to identify, evaluate and implement technology, automation and AI opportunities that improve team performance, operational efficiency and business outcomes.
• Creates an environment that encourages innovation, experimentation, continuous learning and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Leads teams through evolving operating models and technology-enabled transformation, building capability and readiness for future workforce requirements.
• Tracks and delivers measurable business outcomes from digital, automation and AI initiatives through effective prioritisation, governance and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrates AI fluency and literacy through the ability to effectively use, evaluate and govern AI-enabled tools and solutions, applying them responsibly to improve business outcomes, productivity and decision-making.

We make an impact by offering

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

Closing date for Applications: 29 October 2026.