Senior cloud devops engineer

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Build high‑performing, scalable, enterprise‑grade platform services & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem‑solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

The Cloud Adoption Office is looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer with a strong background in cloud operations. Responsible for managing complex cloud environments, optimizing, and automating deployments while collaborating closely with cloud engineers, security engineers & cloud architects. Reporting into Cloud Operations Lead.

Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem‑solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions. Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including design process. Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions. Quickly produce well‑organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions. Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self‑service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience. Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions. Create & maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines). Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes. Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services. Apply version control and related concepts and techniques. Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines. Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. Releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications. Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc. Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization technologies teams and make recommendations for improvements. Stay ahead of business needs through proactive engagement with business leaders. Oversee and manage AWS environments, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting systems for proactive issue resolution (e.g., Cloud Watch, Prometheus, ELK, etc.). Design and implement full-stack observability strategies, ensuring end‑to‑end visibility across cloud environments, applications and infrastructure using tools like Open Telemetry, AWS X-Ray. Develop, deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform. Design, implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD or AWS Code Pipeline. Work cross‑functionally with Dev Ops, developers and security teams to drive best practices and mentor junior engineers. Identification of automation opportunities, to eliminate waste, encourage self‑service, decrease manual toil & enhance operational excellence for users of AWS. Required Qualifications & Experience 10+ years of experience in IT, with a strong focus on cloud operation and engineering. 7+ years of hands‑on AWS experience managing large‑scale production environments. Expertise in AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS and more. Strong Dev Ops and automation expertise using Terraform, Ansible or other configuration management tools. Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash or Power Shell. Extensive experience with monitoring/logging solutions (e.g., Cloud Watch, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog). Strong knowledge of observability best practices, including tracing, logging and metrics collection. Good stakeholder management, communication & cross‑functional team working for collaborative outcomes. Strong knowledge of networking, troubleshooting security and IAM best practices in AWS. Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and workflows. Experience in designing highly available and scalable architectures. Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills with the ability to work in a fast‑paced environment. Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

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