Blue Pearl HQ

Senior DevOps Engineer

Blue Pearl HQ  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Hybrid)  •  12 days ago
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Job Description


We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to operate
inside a AWS native banking environment. You will own the build, automation,
and operational tooling that delivery teams rely on everyday CI/CD pipelines,
infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, configuration management, and
the developer experience that surrounds them.


This is an engineering role first. You will spend the
majority of your time in code and configuration: writing pipelines, building
automation, hardening environments, and removing manual toil from the path to
production. You will work alongside developers, architects, security engineers,
and platform teams to keep delivery flowing reliably inside a regulated,
PCI-DSS environment.


Site Reliability Engineering experience is a strong
advantage. You will use it to push the platform further sharper observability,
better incident response, lower failure domains, and resilience patterns built
into the way services are deployed and run.


What you will do:


Core DevOps Engineering


• Design, build, and maintain
CI/CD pipelines that move code from commit to production safely and repeatably
across the delivery estate.


• Automate AWS workload
provisioning and configuration deployment using infrastructure as code, with
environments that are reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.


• Build and operate the
deployment automation, release tooling, and environment management that
delivery squads depend on day to day.


• Harden the developer experience
repository templates, pipeline templates, deployment patterns, and self-service
tooling that reduce friction without weakening control.


• Integrate security and
compliance controls into pipelines and infrastructure secrets management,
access control, change traceability.


• Translate business and
technical requirements into scalable, automated delivery solutions that align
to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.


AWS & Platform Engineering


• Work hands-on across an AWS
estate, integrating cloud-native services with on-premises systems where the
banking environment requires it.


• Build and operate workloads
across EC2, RDS (EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, and
Service Catalog.


• Use AWS CDK as the primary
infrastructure-as-code tool, with CloudFormation, Ansible, and scripting
languages applied where they fit best.


• Apply networking fundamentals
routing, segmentation, security groups, DNS, TLS, and load balancing to design
environments that are both secure and operable.


• Support the operational
lifecycle of platform services the wider engineering organization depends on,
including identity, messaging, and application server tiers where present.


Site Reliability Advantageous Depth


Where SRE skills are present, the role expands to include
the following. These responsibilities are not the primary requirement but will
materially strengthen the contribution of an engineer who brings them.


• Identify and reduce failure
domains across the platform, designing systems that contain blast radius and
recover gracefully from partial failure.


• Apply SRE principles SLOs,
post-incident learning to improve reliability, performance, and the team's
response to production issues.


• Enhance observability across
environments through stronger monitoring, structured logging, useful alerting,
and dashboards that surface what matters during an incident.


• Troubleshoot and optimize
low-latency, Java-based applications in production, working alongside
application engineers to resolve issues at the system


• Build automation that
minimizes business impact during maintenance and failures, and that reduces the
operational load carried by delivery teams.


Collaboration & Mentorship


• Contribute as a strong technical voice
in a cross-functional team alongside Architects, Engineers, Business Analysts,
Scrum Masters, and Security partners.
• Mentor engineers across the team on DevOps
practice, AWS engineering, automation, and where applicable SRE principles
through pairing, code review, and worked examples.
• Drive collaboration across
squads, lifting the standard of automation, observability, and operational
discipline beyond the immediate team.
• Champion delivery excellence
secure, automated, observable, and repeatable as the default way of working.


Requirements


What We're Looking For:
Essential Experience:



7+ years hands-on experience in a DevOps or SRE role,
with a clear weighting toward DevOps engineering, automation, and CI/CD
delivery.



Hands-on experience in AWS environment, preferably in
financial services with PCI-DSS compliant systems.



Demonstrable track record implementing CI/CD pipeline
automation across functional areas of a delivery organization.



Strong AWS workload automation experience covering
infrastructure provisioning and software configuration rollout.



Practical experience implementing observability for
hybrid and cloud-based environments.



Strong working knowledge of networking principles and
protocols.



Working understanding of the AWS Well-Architected
Framework and how to apply it in practice.


Advantageous Experience:



Demonstrable experience with Site Reliability
Engineering principles and practices in production environments.



Troubleshooting low-latency, Java-based applications in
an SRE context and infrastructure-level performance investigation.



Experience operating inside an audit-heavy regulated
environment beyond PCI-DSS change control, evidence capture, segregation of duties.


Ways of Working:



A hands-on engineer at heart
most effective when the work is in pipelines,
code, and configuration rather than in process documents.



Pragmatic about automation
automates what matters, leaves what doesn't,
and knows the difference.



Strong collaborator across engineering, security, and
operations, with the ability to translate technical decisions into language
non-engineers can act on.



Holds the line on operational and security discipline
without becoming a blocker to delivery.


Technical and Tooling:
Essential:



AWS Services: EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing,
Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog.



AWS CDK.



Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk or
AppDynamics, ELK.



CI/CD platforms (Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or
equivalent).



Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server.


Preferred:



Python scripting.



AWS CloudFormation.



Ansible.



Bash scripting.


Optional:



Zabbix monitoring.



Keycloak.



ActiveMQ.



WebLogic 14c.



Nginx.


Beneficial Certifications:



AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer).



AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

Blue Pearl HQ

About Blue Pearl HQ

Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client.

We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation.

Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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