Midrand: Dev Ops Engineer posted by GMI Advisory

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer at GMI Advisory, you will play a crucial role in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services and contributing to the development of capability in others to achieve 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. This includes managing complex cloud environments, optimizing, and automating deployments while collaborating closely with cloud engineers, security engineers, and cloud architects.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to and, in some cases, lead all phases of the development lifecycle, including 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, and 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.

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.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology