Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure (Contractor)

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving deployment processes and working closely with technical teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, maintain and optimise cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Work with Docker and Kubernetes, including the migration of PayFast to Kubernetes
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management
• Perform Linux administration and complex troubleshooting
• Monitor systems using applications, logs and ELK/OpenSearch
• Manage security, incident response, firewalls and patching
• Support database maintenance and implementations
• Manage CI, testing and release processes
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Support system reliability, scalability and availability

Key Requirements

• High-level proficiency in Linux
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Scripting/programming experience in Bash, Python, PHP, Java or Go
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef or SaltStack
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, FPM or Node
• Load balancing and networking experience
• Database experience, ideally MySQL/MariaDB and cloud-based databases
• Experience with Redis, MongoDB, queues and replication technologies
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience working within Agile environments

Advantageous:

Certifications such as RHCE, ISO 27001 or PCI would be advantageous but are not essential.