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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Job Location:

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Experience Required: 10years

Posted: 12 September 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 10 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Summary of role- DevOps Engineer

A DevOps Engineer is responsible for bridging the gap between software development and IT operations by automating streamlining and improving the software delivery lifecycle. They design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines manage cloud infrastructure monitor system performance and ensure application reliability scalability and security. DevOps Engineers collaborate closely with development testing and operations teams to enable faster deployments reduce downtime and enhance overall system efficiency through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain procedures to comply with security policies and IT best practices
Develop and maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures
Monitor systems via applications log files Elk/OpenSearch and sanity checks
Actively work on building and migrating PayFast to Kubernetes.
Maintain our configuration and build management systems
Database maintenance and implementations
Serve as an escalation point to resolve problems in Servers and users environment
Work closely with technical team members (cultural fit)
Must be able to troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively
Research and evaluation of new technologies for our environment
CI Testing and release management
Firewall Administration
Security and incident response
Patch management
Agile working methods agile planning time management and planning/prioritisation skills

Requirements

Requirements:

Matric Certification and a Bachelors (RHCE / ISO 27001/PCI) is a plus but not required
High level of proficiency in Linux based OS
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) Associated Certified is a must have
Containers (Docker Kubernetes)
Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab Ci)
Proficiency in a scripting language and application language: Bash Python PHP Perl Java Go
Proven IaC experience in one of: SaltStack Chef Ansible Puppet Teraform
Web Servers (Apache Nginx fpm node)
Load Balancers Experience
Knowledge of Database technologies: AWS RDS (especially Maria and MySQL)
NoSql DBspub/sub and Key/Value stores: Redis/mongo
Replication technologies
Experience in Networking: OSI (AWS TGW and basic on prem OSI model)
Queues Rabbit MQ