| Job Title: | 🚀 DevOps Engineer | Cape Town (Hybrid) | Up to R1m PA |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Work Format: | On-site |
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🚀 DevOps Engineer | Cape Town (Hybrid) | Up to R1m PA
Let’s be real…
A lot of “DevOps” roles are just pipeline maintenance and firefighting.
This isn’t one of them.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll design, build, and shape cloud infrastructure from the ground up — working across AWS & Azure, modern stacks, and production systems used at scale.
If you enjoy owning environments, improving performance, and having real architectural influence — keep reading 👇
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure)
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker)
• Support production platforms (Symfony, Laravel, React, Next.js, APIs)
• Improve performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
• Manage Linux servers, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Implement container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred)
• Work with caching & queue systems (Redis, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Support database reliability (backups, migrations, HA)
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues
💻 Tech You’ll Work With
AWS | Azure | Docker | Kubernetes | CI/CD | Jenkins | GitHub Actions | Linux | Redis | RabbitMQ | SQS | REST APIs | Networking | Security
✅ What We’re Looking For
• 3+ years experience in DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure
• Strong experience with AWS & Azure provisioning
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines & deployments
• Hands-on experience with Docker + Kubernetes
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Experience with networking & security (VPCs, VPNs, IAM, load balancing)
• Experience supporting production environments
🌍 Why This Role?
✔ Work on globally used platforms
✔ Real architecture & platform influence
✔ Strong technical ownership & autonomy
✔ Hybrid setup in Cape Town
✔ Salary up to R1m per annum (negotiable)
📍 The Details
📌 Location: Cape Town (Hybrid)
💰 Salary: Up to R1,000,000 per annum
📎 Reference: GZ60976
🤝 Let’s Connect if this sounds like your kind of role:
👤 Garth Zoutendyk
📧 garthz@e-merge.co.za
📞 011 463 3633
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| Country: | South Africa |
| City: | South Africa |
| Address: | Cape Town, South Africa |

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