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Senior DevOps Engineer

meridiantalent.co.zaURL Unverified
JohannesburgFull-timeSeniorHybridZAR 80,000 - ZAR 80,000 /monthPosted 18 Sept 2026

Job Overview

Lead the evolution of modern cloud infrastructure supporting a high-availability financial technology platform. Drive cloud transformation, shape infrastructure strategy, and work with cutting-edge DevOps technologies in a collaborative engineering environment based in Rosebank.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and own large-scale cloud infrastructure initiatives, including AWS migration projects.

• Design, build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.

• Manage and optimise Kubernetes environments across multiple cloud platforms.

• Build and support scalable infrastructure for production systems.

• Implement and maintain cloud security, IAM, secrets management and compliance controls.

• Lead infrastructure deployments, upgrades and release processes.

• Manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability platforms.

• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance and cost optimisation.

• Mentor DevOps team activities and lead production incident root-cause resolution.

Required Qualifications

• 7–10+ years’ commercial DevOps or cloud engineering experience.

• Proven leadership of cloud infrastructure and AWS migration work.

• Strong Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and observability skills.

• Experience with cloud security, IAM and compliance controls.

• Ability to mentor engineers and lead incident response.

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