DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer – Cape Town at Datafin Recruitment

ENVIRONMENT:

• A leading Cloud Solutions company is seeking a DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer who will be responsible for bridging the gap between code and customers.
• This hands-on specialist will own the end-to-end CI/CD lifecycle, manage their scaling Kubernetes environment, and ensure that “Push to Production” is a non-event.
• The successful candidate will be able to empower a small development team by building and implementing the framework and controls that enable delivery efficiency while limiting risk.
• The development team is primarily responsible for creating, enhancing, integrating and maintaining complex custom-designed and off-the-shelf software systems. The team also provides input into technical designs, including investigating complex problems and proposing solutions.

DUTIES:

• Pipeline Automation: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Flux) to automate testing, security scanning, and deployment.
• Kubernetes Orchestration: Manage and scale their production K8s clusters (On-Prem), ensuring high availability, resource optimization, and seamless deployment.
• Release Management: Ensure that production releases are deployed in a manner that minimizes downtime.
• Observability & Reliability: Implement deep-stack monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) to proactively identify bottlenecks before they affect their customers.
• Security, and Process Adherence: Establish, uphold, and enforce technical standards, established engineering methodologies (including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code), and security protocols across the entire delivery lifecycle, ensuring all infrastructure and code deployments adhere to departmental processes and procedures
• Contributing to software architecture planning
• Participate in regular sprints meetings
• Documentation: ensure system documentation, release notes, installation notes and user guides are created and maintained
• Contributing to establishing process & refining/optimising operational processes
• Assist in managing infrastructure components and hosting environments

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications and Experience:

• Formal tertiary qualification (Degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT or Engineering) or equivalent experience essential.
• 5+ years of working development experience essential.
• Project Life Cycle and software development methodologies essential.
• Expert knowledge with Linux and Bash scripting essential.
• Expert knowledge of Docker builds and maintaining a Kubernetes environment essential.
• Strong working knowledge with CI/CD pipeline and related software preferrable. They use Github Actions, Jenkins and Flux.
• Working knowledge with Git / GitHub essential
• Working knowledge of IP Networking essential
• Working knowledge of Client/Server and integration technologies essential
• Experience with VoIP, WebRTC and other telecommunications standards preferable
• Ability to understand, troubleshoot and debug technical issues

ATTRIBUTES:

• Operational Ownership & Product Mindset: Take proactive, end-to-end ownership of the CI/CD pipeline and the DevOps platform, driving operational excellence by treating the internal development team as the primary customer.
• Technical Communication & Collaboration: Function as a cross-functional partner, able to work seamlessly across development, QA, and business teams, while clearly articulating complex system architectures and technical designs to all stakeholders.
• Resilience & Incident Leadership: Maintain solution quality and manage time effectively under tight release deadlines. Demonstrate calm leadership when managing critical production issues and leading root cause analysis (RCA).
• Continuous Learning & Mentorship: Committed to self-study to remain current with evolving technologies. Contribute to continual improvement with respect to operational processes. Committed to knowledge transfer, documenting processes, and mentoring junior team members.