Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure Job at Praesignis
by Praesignis
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Job role overview
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Date posted
August 31, 2026
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Closing date
October 1, 2026
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Hiring location
Gauteng Johannesburg
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Experience
8 years
Description
Job Description
- We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to join a team responsible for building and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure and automated technology platforms supporting mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.
- Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation solutions.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Drive SRE practices, including reliability, resilience, incident management and continuous improvement.
- Implement monitoring, observability and proactive performance management.
- Champion DevSecOps, security and compliance across the delivery lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
- 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
- 3+ years in SRE or production operations environments.
- Proven experience supporting mission-critical enterprise production systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field is preferred.
Technical Skills
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Microsoft Azure & AKS
- Azure DevOps & GitHub Enterprise
- Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates & Ansible
- Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
- Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory/Nexus
- Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Elastic Stack & Azure Monitor
- Python, PowerShell and Bash
- CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure and automation
- Advantageous: OpenShift, AWS/GCP, Go and relevant Azure/Kubernetes/Terraform certifications.
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- ITIL Foundation
- SRE Foundation Certification
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