🚀 Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure – Sandton, Gauteng

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Are you a senior DevOps professional ready for your next big career move?

A new Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure opportunity is available in Sandton, Gauteng.

Praesignis (Pty) Ltd is looking for an experienced technology professional to join a team supporting highly available, scalable, secure and automated platforms.

This is an exciting opportunity for professionals with strong Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and SRE experience.

📍 Location: Sandton, Gauteng
💼 Job Type: Contract
⏳ Contract Term: 11 Months
📅 Posted: 25 August 2026
🔔 Closing Date: 18 September 2026
🏦 Industry: Banking
💻 Functional Area: Consulting
⭐ Experience Level: Mid-Senior

🔥 Senior DevOps Job Opportunity in South Africa

If you have extensive experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, software engineering or Site Reliability Engineering, this role could be worth exploring.

The successful candidate will help build and maintain technology platforms supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.

You will work with modern cloud technologies while helping engineering teams improve reliability, automation, security and performance.

This makes the vacancy particularly relevant to professionals searching for:

  • DevOps jobs in South Africa

  • Azure jobs in Gauteng

  • Senior DevOps jobs in Sandton

  • Site Reliability Engineer jobs

  • Cloud engineering jobs

  • Kubernetes jobs

  • Azure DevOps jobs

  • IT jobs in Johannesburg

  • Technology jobs in South Africa

💼 What Will You Do?

The Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer will have a key technical role within the engineering environment.

Key responsibilities include:

🔹 Designing and maintaining cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.

🔹 Developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation solutions.

🔹 Building and managing CI/CD pipelines.

🔹 Improving automated deployment processes.

🔹 Driving Site Reliability Engineering practices.

🔹 Supporting reliability and resilience initiatives.

🔹 Participating in incident management and continuous improvement.

🔹 Implementing monitoring and observability solutions.

🔹 Managing proactive performance improvement.

🔹 Championing DevSecOps, security and compliance.

🔹 Providing technical leadership and mentorship.

This is more than a traditional infrastructure role.

It is an opportunity to help shape reliable, automated and secure technology platforms.

🎯 Minimum Requirements

Applicants should have significant professional experience in technology and production environments.

Experience required:

  • 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.

  • 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.

  • 3+ years working in SRE or production operations environments.

  • Proven experience supporting mission-critical enterprise production systems.

A Bachelor's degree is preferred.

Relevant fields include:

  • Computer Science

  • Information Technology

  • Software Engineering

  • Information Systems

  • Related technology disciplines

☁️ Technical Skills You Need

This position requires strong hands-on technical knowledge.

Experience with the following technologies will be important:

Microsoft Azure

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • Azure DevOps

  • Azure Monitor

Infrastructure & Automation

  • Terraform

  • Bicep

  • ARM Templates

  • Ansible

Containers & Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Helm

CI/CD & Development Tools

  • Jenkins

  • SonarQube

  • Artifactory

  • Nexus

  • GitHub Enterprise

Monitoring & Observability

Experience with platforms such as:

  • Dynatrace

  • Grafana

  • Prometheus

  • Splunk

  • Elastic Stack

  • Azure Monitor

Programming & Scripting

Knowledge of:

  • Python

  • PowerShell

  • Bash

You should also understand CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure and automation.

🏆 Certifications That Can Give You an Advantage

Professional certifications are preferred for this role.

These include:

✅ Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

✅ Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

✅ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

✅ Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

✅ HashiCorp Terraform Associate

✅ AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

✅ ITIL Foundation

✅ SRE Foundation Certification

Additional experience with OpenShift, AWS, GCP, Go, Azure, Kubernetes or Terraform can also be advantageous.

📍 Looking for IT Jobs in Gauteng?

This vacancy is based in Sandton, Gauteng, making it an opportunity for experienced technology professionals searching for careers around Johannesburg.

If you are targeting IT jobs, DevOps jobs, cloud jobs or technology jobs in South Africa, keep opportunities like this on your job search radar.

Professionals in Johannesburg, Pretoria and surrounding Gauteng areas may find this type of senior technology position particularly relevant.

For candidates considering opportunities outside Gauteng, continue checking for Cape Town jobs, Durban jobs, remote work opportunities and technology jobs across South Africa.

🚀 How to Apply for This DevOps Job

Ready to take the next step?

Submit your CV and application directly through Praesignis.

👉 Apply Here: Praesignis Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer Application

📅 Closing Date: 18 September 2026

Don't wait until the closing date.

If your experience matches the requirements, prepare your CV and apply as early as possible.

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🔎 Final Thoughts

The Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure position offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced technology professional.

With strong requirements across Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, automation, CI/CD and SRE, this role is suited to candidates with advanced technical experience.

If you have the required background, don't miss this opportunity.

Check the requirements. Update your CV. Apply before 18 September 2026.

Your next career opportunity could be one application away. 🚀


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