DevOps Engineer (Intermediate)
Recruiter:
Pillango Placements
Job Ref:
PTA003703/MM
Date posted:
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Location:
Johannesburg, South Africa
SUMMARY:
Big impact. Serious tech.
Help drive a modern DevOps capability in an independent unit within a leading financial services group.
Hybrid working with flexibility and trust.
POSITION INFO:
A key summary of the role is outlined below. A more comprehensive job specification with full details is available after initial contact and a successful CV review.
Role: Intermediate DevOps Engineer (CIT) focused on building and improving
scalable, automated, reliable, secure, high-quality systems and integrations.
Core Purpose:
- Implement customer integrations and improve customer experience
- Root-cause analysis of production errors, resolve issues, and reduce repeat incidents
- Design troubleshooting and maintenance procedures and build tools to lower error rates
Key Responsibilities:
- Application Software Development: Enhance existing apps and build new routine applications to meet customer needs
- Application Software Roadmap: Contribute and maintain road map to facilitate application software development and prioritise aligned to business needs
- Data Driven Product and Service Improvement: Research data from digital product/service performance, customer behaviour, and market trends to identify opportunities for product/service improvement
- Produce concepts/prototypes and deliver features within established engineering systems
- Product/Service Development
- Digital Marketing Plan Execution
- Support customer and market research by performing customer and market research and analysis techniques
- Perform testing, monitoring, diagnosis, and performance correction (web/app)
- Fault isolation and resolution for complex issues
Skills:
- Action Planning
- Assessment
- Planning and Organising
- Application Development
- Data Collection and Analysis
- IT Testing
- Product Development
- Customer and Market Analysis
- IT Data Management
- Market Research and Analysis
- Project Management
- Marketing Commercialisation
Required Experience & Tech
- 3 – 6 years with: Rancher 2.5+, Kubernetes, Linux (Essential)
- Azure DevOps experience (Essential)
- Agile/Scrum understanding (Essential)
- Advantageous: .NET, Angular, React, Node
- Up to 1 year experience supervising junior colleagues (Essential)
Education
- Relevant Tertiary / Post Graduate Qualification
Behavioural Expectations
- Innovative, customer-focused, strong decision-making and accountability
- Comfortable with complexity/ambiguity; plans well; communicates clearly; delivers results
Package:
The salary is open for discussion and will be market related in line with your qualifications, skills and experience.
