Durban: Build and Release Engineer posted by Hire Resolve

March 30, 2026 Jobs in Durban

Hire Resolve

Kwazulu-Natal

Other IT/Computer

Job Description

About the Role

Hire Resolve’s client is looking for a Build and Release Engineer to join their team in Durban, KZN. The candidate will work within their DevOps team and with their Front End Scrum teams automating and optimizing our software build and deployment system.

Key Responsibilities

Automate and optimize our software build and deployment system, ensuring we measure and minimize the time from commit to customer
Make sure build and deployment processes are following known best practices, coach and train developers on best practices that help them become more efficient
Build, extend, and maintain the software release pipeline system, ruthlessly minimizing the feedback loop for developers and release time to for customers
Plan and build Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
Education of the team on the best use of build, deployment and other tools
Repeatability of the release management process for the development team
Scale pipeline to support more customers, systems and developers
Building and maintaining the build and deploy pipeline environment
Automating release to manufacturing steps, optimizing for continuous release and deployments to scale
Raise build and deploy infrastructure issues and potential improvements with Operations and DevOps Teams
Manage build and deploy infrastructure
Liaise with Engineers in other teams on a regular basis on common issues
Performing other software development tasks, such as developing code for internal and external web applications
Working with QA and Dev team to push the envelope on known best practices for automation, always improving them
Exercise technical consistency within the IT environment.

Requirements

Matric
A BSc Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, a BComm Business Information Systems (BIS) Degree, or a very high quality Technikon Diploma
3+ years of work experience in a development environment
Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools (ALM)
Experience with AWS Cloud and virtualization
Experience with JavaScript, .Net, C# , Python, PowerShell, Bash, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes
Experience with collaboration & development tools: SCM – Git distributed source control, Build GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Deploy Octopus, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Rundeck, Helm

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Qualifications

(No qualifications mentioned in the original job description)

Salary & Benefits

A highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.

Contact Information

Send your CV to Gaby Turner at gaby.turner@hireresolve.us or Carmen Schafer at carmen.schafer@hireresolve.us
Visit the Hire Resolve website: hireresolve.us
Email us your CV: info@hireresolve.us

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