Absa Group

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Absa Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Randburg • South Africa

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSCloudDockerEC2KubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & build capability in others to do the same
  • Managing complex cloud environments, optimizing, and automating deployments
  • Collaborating closely with cloud engineers, security engineers & cloud architects
  • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment
  • Contribute to and lead all phases of the development lifecycle
  • Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code
  • Ensure designs & solutions support self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
  • Create & Maintain CI / CD Pipelines
  • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting (e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes)
  • Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
  • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
  • Stay ahead of emerging technologies and development practices
  • Oversee and manage AWS environments, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance
  • Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
  • Design and implement full-stack observability strategies
  • Develop, deploy, and manage infrastructure using Terraform

Requirements

  • 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 DevOps and automation expertise using Terraform, Ansible, or other configuration management tools
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  • Extensive experience with monitoring/logging solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog)
  • Strong knowledge of observability best practices, including tracing, logging, and metrics collection
  • Strong knowledge of networking, troubleshooting, security, and IAM best practices in AWS
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and workflows
  • Experience in designing highly available and scalable architectures
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformAnsibleDockerKubernetesPythonBashPowerShellCI/CDmonitoring solutions
Soft Skills
critical thinkingdesign thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationleadershipcommunicationagile methodologyoptimizationperformance monitoringdocumentation