Midrand: Dev Ops Engineer posted by GMI Advisory

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer at GMI Advisory, you will play a critical role in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services and contributing to the development of capability in others to do the same. You will apply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex cloud environments, optimizing and automating deployments while collaborating closely with cloud engineers, security engineers & cloud architects.
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solution.
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. Releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization technologies teams and make recommendations for improvements.
• ‘Stay ahead’ of business needs through proactive engagement with business leaders
• Oversee and manage AWS environments, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for proactive issue resolution (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
• Design and implement full-stack observability strategies, ensuring end-to-end visibility across cloud environments, applications, and infrastructure using tools like OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray.
• Develop, deploy, and manage infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline
• Work cross-functionally with DevOps, developers, and security teams to drive best practices and mentor junior engineers.

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, 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.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology