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Expert Infrastructure Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Posted 4 days ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Cullinan, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Contract

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  • We are seeking an Expert Infrastructure Engineer with over 6 years of hands-on experience in Automation Engineering or a related field.
  • The role involves automating and improving infrastructure using tools like Python, Linux, Terraform, and Ansible, while working on a global Zero Trust transformation.
  • Key responsibilities include designing automation solutions, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
  • The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including flexible working arrangements and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies.
  • Candidates should have a strong problem-solving mindset and a passion for optimizing processes with minimal manual intervention.

We’re looking foran Expert Infrastructure Engineer who doesn’t just keep infrastructure running;you automate it, improve it, and make it smarter.

This is ahands-on role for someone who loves Python, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CDand cloud automation, and who gets excited about building systems that can dothe heavy lifting themselves.

You’ll be workingon a global Zero Trust transformation, helping create secure, automated andAI-enabled services across identity, connectivity, workspace, data and securityenvironments.


What You’ll BeDoing

  • Design, build and operate automation and orchestration solutions across infrastructure, security, workflows and operational processes.
  • Develop powerful automation tooling, scripts and reusable libraries using Python and Bash.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline.
  • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Automate configuration and deployments using Ansible.
  • Design and operate workflow orchestration using technologies such as Temporal, Camunda and AWS Step Functions.
  • Build event-driven and long-running automated processes.
  • Create SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation solutions to reduce manual incident response.
  • Integrate systems using REST APIs, webhooks, message brokers and event-driven technologies.
  • Build automated API and regression testing into your solutions.
  • Make your automation idempotent, reliable and resilient, with smart retry, compensation and error-handling patterns.
  • Monitor automation in production using metrics, structured logging and tracing.
  • Define and maintain operational targets such as availability, latency and MTTR.
  • Own automation alerting, operational runbooks and participate in incident response/on-call activities.
  • Help ensure automationsolutions are scalable, highly available and fault tolerant.

Requirements

You’ll need 6+years of hands-on experience in Automation Engineering, Site ReliabilityEngineering, Platform Engineering or a closely related field.

We’reparticularly interested in someone who has owned production-grade automationand can confidently work across:

Python + Bash +Linux + CI/CD + Terraform + Ansible + Cloud + Orchestration

You should besomeone who enjoys solving complex problems, improving processes and figuringout how to make things work better, faster and with less manual intervention.

We’re looking foran engineer who takes ownership, pays attention to detail and isn't afraid toget stuck into a tricky production problem.


Your TechPlayground

Must-Have

  • Python
  • Bash / Linux
  • CI/CD
    • GitHub Actions
    • Jenkins
    • AWS CodePipeline
  • Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
  • Ansible
  • REST APIs / Webhooks
  • API testing and automated regression testing
  • Workflow and process orchestration
  • Event-driven automation
  • Production monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Idempotency, retries, compensation patterns and robust error handling

 

Nice to Have

  • AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon S3
  • API Gateway
  • CloudWatch
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • SNS/SQS
  • EventBridge
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Security automation
  • Zero Trust
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • ArgoCD
  • Flux
  • OPA / Policy-as-Code
  • GitOps
  • SOAR and automated remediation
  • High-availability and fault-tolerant architectures
  • Reusable automationlibraries and developer-friendly APIs

Certifications– Bonus Points

These would beadvantageous:

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Benefits

  • Work on a global technology landscape
  • Flexible working model based on 1,960 hours over a 12-month period
  • Strong work-life balance
  • Remote / on-site flexibility
  • Modern, state-of-the-art offices
  • Work alongside dynamic global teams
  • Agile working environment
  • Fast-paced and energetic technology environment
  • Opportunities to work with cloud, automation, DevOps, security and Zero Trust technologies
  • Competitive vehiclepurchase/leasing benefits available, subject to applicable terms and conditions




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