Johannesburg: Release DevOps Specialist (JHB) posted by Datafin
Job Description
Johannesburg – Gauteng – South Africa
- Own and manage the release calendar, coordinating with Product Owners, Developers, and QA.
- Plan, document, and communicate release schedules and content.
- Ensure staging environments are aligned with production and release packages are validated before go-live.
- Triage bugs raised in staging and work with Developers/QA to resolve them efficiently.
- Facilitate go/no-go decisions with stakeholders.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- Automate deployments to dev, staging, and production environments.
- Ensure reproducible builds and consistent deployment scripts.
- Manage environment configuration, secrets, and access control.
- Implement rollback and recovery strategies.
- Maintain dev, staging, and production environments to ensure parity and stability.
- Monitor environment health, performance, and resource usage.
- Work with IT Ops to align deployments with compliance and security policies.
- Act as the first line of investigation for staging issues (deployment/config/data), escalating true code defects back to Devs.
- Partner with QA to ensure test environments are production-like.
- Improve release processes to reduce lead time and increase deployment frequency.
- Provide dashboards and reporting on release readiness, success rates, and post-release stability.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- Hands-on experience with automated deployments for .NET / Blazor / SQL Server applications.
- Expert understanding of source control (Git branching strategies).
- Strong troubleshooting skills across code, config, and environment layers.
- Exposure to Release/Change Management processes in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools e.g. Seq.
- Knowledge of security practices for deployments (secrets management, access policies).
- Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
- Experience with infrastructure automation (e.g., containerization).
- Structured & detail-oriented able to manage multiple moving parts in parallel.
- Problem solver investigates staging/production issues calmly and systematically.
- Collaborative works closely with Developers, QA, and IT.
- Ownership mindset treats release success as their personal responsibility.
- Continuous improver always looking for ways to make releases faster, safer, and more reliable.
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