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Senior DevOps Engineer

Full Time Opportunity

  • Ownership
  • Architecture
  • Reliability
  • Observability
  • Security
  • Compliance
  • Communication
  • Documentation
  • Autonomy
  • Transparency
  • Collaboration
  • Simplicity
  • Troubleshooting
  • Scalability
  • Resilience

Overview


Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead a major infrastructure transformation from on-premise roots to a cloud-native, Kubernetes-first architecture on AWS. This role is responsible for owning the cloud platform layer end-to-end, spanning infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and developer enablement in a live production financial environment where uptime, auditability, and security are critical. The successful person will join a small, high-autonomy engineering team, shape platform engineering conventions and tooling choices from the ground up, and simplify complex systems for the engineering teams that rely on them.

Responsibilities


  • Design and maintain Terraform and Terragrunt modules for multi-account AWS environments
  • Manage EKS clusters, Karpenter node provisioning, networking, and IAM
  • Drive infrastructure toward immutable, declarative patterns
  • Build and operate the observability stack across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting
  • Define SLOs and support SLO-based alerting tied to DORA metrics
  • Drive incident response and contribute to HA/DR architecture for a regulated financial platform
  • Own CI/CD pipelines using GitLab runners, ArgoCD, and GitOps patterns
  • Build golden pipelines and self-service tooling that reduce friction between code merge and production
  • Implement policy-as-code, container scanning, supply chain security, and secrets management
  • Partner with security teams on audit readiness and compliance controls
  • Architect and deploy production EKS clusters with Karpenter for intelligent, cost-efficient node scaling
  • Build a Terragrunt-driven multi-account AWS landing zone with SCPs, Control Tower, and least-privilege IAM
  • Design GitOps deployment pipelines using ArgoCD with ApplicationSets for multi-environment promotion
  • Stand up a full observability stack using metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
  • Evaluate and implement a service mesh such as Istio or Linkerd for mTLS, traffic management, and canary deployments
  • Introduce supply chain security practices including image signing with Cosign, SBOM generation, and admission policies
  • Build an internal developer platform with self-service namespaces, templated pipelines, and environment provisioning
  • Contribute to architecture decision records, blameless post-mortems, internal documentation, and broader platform engineering standards
  • Help shape conventions, tooling choices, golden paths, and internal engineering culture from the ground up

Experience


  • 3+ years of production Kubernetes experience
  • Strong hands-on experience with EKS; GKE or AKS experience is also relevant
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking, RBAC, autoscaling, and production troubleshooting
  • Proven Terraform experience at scale, including module authoring, remote state management, and provider version pinning
  • Experience with Terragrunt and multi-account cloud patterns
  • Deep AWS experience across EKS, IAM, VPC architecture, Organizations, SCPs, and a broad range of AWS services
  • Experience designing secure, fast, developer-trusted CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent
  • Strong security-first delivery experience, including least-privilege design, container scanning, secrets management, and shift-left practices
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly and write operational runbooks
  • GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux, including ApplicationSets, progressive delivery, or Argo Rollouts
  • Service mesh knowledge, including Istio or Linkerd, mTLS, traffic shaping, and blue-green or canary deployment patterns
  • Deep observability experience across OpenTelemetry, Prometheus at scale, Grafana Loki, and SLO-based alerting
  • Experience with policy-as-code and admission control frameworks such as OPA, Gatekeeper, or Kyverno
  • Working familiarity with managed databases, especially Aurora PostgreSQL, including connection pooling, replication, and performance monitoring
  • Familiarity working alongside systems backed by Aurora and Redis
  • Platform engineering experience across Backstage, internal tooling, golden paths, and developer self-service portals
  • FinOps awareness, including cost tagging, Karpenter consolidation policies, Savings Plans, and Cost Anomaly Detection

Qualifications


  • AWS certifications related to cloud architecture, security, or DevOps are advantageous

Tools & Technologies


  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • Docker
  • GitLab
  • GitHub
  • ArgoCD
  • GitOps
  • ApplicationSets
  • Karpenter
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Organizations
  • SCPs
  • ControlTower
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Loki
  • Elastic
  • CloudWatch
  • OPA
  • Gatekeeper
  • Kyverno
  • Trivy
  • SOPS
  • GuardDuty
  • SecurityHub
  • SecretsManager
  • Istio
  • Linkerd
  • Backstage
  • Cosign
  • SBOM
  • Aurora
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Go
  • HCL
  • OIDC
  • RBAC
  • SLOs
  • DORA
  • Flux
Cape Town
Expected Salary

120 000 ZAR p/m

Work Policy

Hybrid

Team

Engineering

Industry

Software Development

Interview Process

  1. Initial Screening: (Conducted by Oneo.)
  2. 30-Minute Call: Focused on company culture and a technical dive.
  3. Technical Interview: To assess technical skills.
  4. Panel Interview: Deeper dive into technical & practical knowledge.
  5. Meet the local team.

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