DevOps Engineer
ABSA Group24 hours ago
Accra, GhanaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, automate, and support secure, resilient, scalable DevOps platforms and technology services.
- Monitor platform, infrastructure, and application availability, reliability, performance, capacity, and operational resilience.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, deployment validation, security controls, rollback procedures, and release governance.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation solutions using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and related tools.
- Administer and optimize AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and Alauda container environments.
- Provide Level 2 application and platform support, including incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, monitoring, patching, upgrades, and release support.
- Coordinate functional, integration, performance, security, deployment, and operational-readiness testing.
- Implement monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, capacity planning, and continuous service improvement.
- Remediate vulnerabilities, security patches, audit findings, penetration-test observations, and compliance issues across supported environments.
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity, failover, migration readiness, cutover, rollback, post-migration stabilization, and technology transformation programs.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, knowledge bases, and training for engineering and support teams.
- Collaborate with development, application, business, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Security teams to improve service delivery and governance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related technology disciplines.
- Experience working in banking, financial services, telecommunications, FinTech, insurance, or another highly regulated or critical-infrastructure environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing production-critical, highly available, mission-critical, and customer-facing applications and platforms.
- Expertise with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps.
- Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure, including networking, storage, compute, and security.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code.
- Advanced Docker and Kubernetes skills, including deploying and managing containers at scale.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Datadog or similar monitoring and observability tools.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, secure CI/CD, access governance, audit logging, and data protection.
- Familiarity with microservices, APIs, cloud-native architecture, digital transformation, and modern software development practices.
- Knowledge of PCI-DSS, GDPR, Bank of Ghana security requirements, ISO 27001, or other regulatory compliance frameworks is advantageous.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, Red Hat OpenShift, Alauda, DevSecOps, or ITIL are preferred.
- Experience with AI-driven automation, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, or ServiceNow and ITSM integration is advantageous.
- A master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Technology Management is advantageous.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashCircleCIDatadogDockerGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesOpenShiftPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About ABSA Group
Absa Group is a pan-African financial services company that provides retail, business, corporate and investment banking, payments, and wealth solutions to consumers, SMEs, and institutions. Headquartered in Johannesburg and formed in 2018 following the separation from Barclays Africa, it operates banks in markets including South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Absa Group Limited is publicly listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (ticker: ABG).