Cloud DevOps Engineer

Introduction

A leading integrated risk and compliance management software company situated in Fourways, Gauteng seeks a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join a dynamic and passionate team in an IT development environment.

With offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa, we provide state-of-the-art solutions for EHS, ESG, and Sustainability Risk and Compliance management. This is a hybrid role.

Main purpose of Job:

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions to support both internal teams and external clients. You will provide strategic technical guidance and support for cloud architecture, automation, and deployment pipelines, enabling rapid development, continuous integration, and seamless delivery of software. Your expertise will ensure optimal performance, security, and availability of cloud services while fostering a culture of automation, innovation, and operational excellence.

Duties & Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities:

DevOps

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results

• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.

IT and Technical Support

• Support and installation:

• IIS Administration and Troubleshooting

• SQL Administration and troubleshooting

• Installation including patches and service packs

• Incident response and remediation

• Manage, design, plan, implement and support physical and virtual environments including Azure tenants for best performance and security through DevOps practices

• Brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve automated infrastructure implementations

• IT procurement and sustainable asset management

• Customer engagements and RFP document population

• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company.

IT Strategy

• ISO 27 001 accreditation support, including ongoing compliance

• Adoption of Cloud and Cybersecurity strategy

• Adoption and execution of DevOps strategy

• Adequate disaster recovery strategy, including backup strategy and successful execution

• Stay current with Microsoft Partner requirements and liaise with Microsoft Account Manager maintaining sustainable relationships

• Partner certification requirements are met and communicated to management Information Systems adoption strategy

Desired Experience & Qualification

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, software engineering, or related field

• Microsoft Azure Certification – AZ-400

• 3 years previous experience in development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field

• 2 years previous experience with the following Microsoft Azure infrastructure services:

• Azure SQL\SQL Server

• Cosmos DB

• Azure Application Services

• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, monitoring, observability and reporting tools

• Scripting tools e.g., PowerShell, Bash, az cli

• Kubernetes, Helm, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containerisation technologies

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (ARM, Terraform etc.)

• Configuration Automation (Chef, Ansible, PowerShell etc.)

• Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, Networking and routing

• Identity and Authentication, SSO/Federation, AD/Azure AD, Azure Key Vault, Certificate management experience

• Azure Networking and Firewall infrastructure experience

• Azure Storage

• Azure Redis Cache

• Previous experience with software development (C#, Web development, JavaScript), infrastructure development, or development and operations

• Experience of working with distributed microservices application architectures, patterns and deployment frameworks/topologies

• Experience maturing site reliability, observability and reducing MTTD, MTTR, RPO, RTO etc.

• Experience with Windows Server infrastructures, IIS, Azure App Service MS SQL, CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript, PowerShell and Agile workflow methodologies

• Up to date on latest industry trends, able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently

• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management

• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently

• Azure Certified Developer Associate and or Azure Certified Administrator Associate

Package & Remuneration

Competitive salary

Please note that only suitably candidates will be contacted.

If you have received no response within 2 weeks, your application was unsuccessful.