Why male leaders must champion women in tech, now more than ever
Kelebogile Dlamini
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DevOps Engineer
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Remote work: | Some remote work allowed |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #GZ60640 |
| Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
We’re changing lives. We're reimagining financial access across South Africa with tech that actually matters. Think payments, banking, and inclusion all rolled into one smart, secure platform.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments to ensure 99.9% uptime.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Optimize scalability, security, and performance of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ECS, Lambda, etc.)
- Utilize monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana for system visibility and alerting
- Perform regular patching and upgrades based on the approved patch policy
- Plan and execute maintenance windows with minimal service disruption
- Address vulnerabilities using scan results (e.g., Rapid7) to ensure environment compliance
- Deploy approved GitLab pipelines into production based on JSM change requests.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field – or equivalent work experience.
- One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained):
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- LPI Linux Essentials
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
- Hands-on experience in managing production workloads in AWS.
- Proven expertise in Linux server administration
- Advanced knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.).
- Strong experience with Terraform and other IaC tools.
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration (ECS a plus).
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar tools
Reference Number for this position is GZ60640 which is a permanent Hybrid position based in Century City offering a cost to company salary of R720k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on [[garthz@e-merge.co.za] or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
Are you ready for a change of scenery? The E-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.
Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!
Posted on 05 Aug 10:36, Closing date 4 Oct
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