10 days ago
Johannesburg, South Africa or Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Lead platform engineering initiatives such as internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including automated security scanning, compliance checks, and secure-by-default configurations in delivery pipelines.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide engineering priorities and reliability investments.
- Lead on-call operations, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
- Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort and improve system resilience.
- Architect and implement observability solutions to accelerate issue detection and resolution.
Requirements
- Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
- Demonstrated experience building internal tools, self-service infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
- Practical experience integrating security scanning, secrets management, and compliance automation into deployment pipelines.
- Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and Linux systems administration.
- Experience leading incident response and postmortem processes.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with observability and security tooling, plus the ability to contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Wellbeing initiatives.
- Shared parental leave.
- Study assistance.
- Sabbaticals.
- Country-specific benefits and support for workplace accommodations.