Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Recruiter: Datonomy Solutions

Job Ref: 865

Date posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Location: Sandton, South Africa

Salary: R90k - 100k per month

SUMMARY: Engineering role spanning DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering

POSITION INFO: We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable and automated enterprise technology platforms. This is a senior hands-on engineering role spanning DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps . The successful candidate will work across engineering and delivery teams to improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, resilience, automation, operational efficiency and production performance , while supporting mission-critical enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities DevOps & Platform Engineering Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services . Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes. Build reusable engineering tools, deployment templates and platform components. Establish and standardise platform engineering practices across multiple delivery teams. Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and increase engineering automation. CI/CD & Release Automation Design, implement and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments. Implement automated testing, security scanning, code-quality controls and release automation. Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes. Improve deployment frequency while reducing change and deployment risk. Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes. Site Reliability Engineering Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering practices across production environments. Define, monitor and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) . Improve application and platform availability, scalability, resilience and performance . Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) . Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt. Improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) . Azure Cloud Engineering Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments. Work extensively with technologies such as: Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS ) Azure App Services Azure Networking Azure Monitor Azure Storage Azure Identity Services Design highly available and disaster-recovery-capable environments. Optimise cloud environments for performance, resilience, security and cost . Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where required. Containers & Kubernetes Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes . Manage Kubernetes environments, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) . Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm . Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance. OpenShift experience would be advantageous. Infrastructure as Code & Automation Hands-on experience with technologies such as: Terraform Bicep ARM Templates Ansible Candidates should be comfortable using Infrastructure as Code to build repeatable, scalable and governed enterprise infrastructure. Monitoring & Observability Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting . Build operational dashboards and platform insights. Establish enterprise observability standards. Implement proactive and predictive monitoring. Use observability information to improve application and infrastructure reliability. Relevant technologies may include: Dynatrace Grafana Prometheus Elastic Stack / ELK