Site Reliability Engineer
- Blue Pearl
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- ZAR 1,000,000 – ZAR 1,400,000
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments, preferably within PCI-DSS compliant financial services environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in infrastructure automation, CI/CD implementation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering practices across the organization.
What you'll do:
- Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment, preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
- Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
- AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout).
- Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments.
- Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols.
- Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context.
- Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices.
- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices.
Requirements
Your expertise:
- Must have at least 8 years hands-on experience in a DevOps role within a hybrid AWS cloud environment
- Experience in PCI-DSS compliant systems (preferably within the financial sector)
- Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
- Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines
- Experience with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning
- Experience implementing observability in cloud and hybrid environments
- Experience troubleshooting low-latency and Java-based applications
- Practical application of Platform Engineering principles
- Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
Technology and Tooling:
Essential:
- AWS Services: EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
- AWS CDK
- Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
- CI/CD platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)
- Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server
Preferred:
- Python scripting
- AWS CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Bash scripting
Optional:
- Zabbix monitoring
- Keycloak
- ActiveMQ
- WebLogic 14c
- Nginx
Certifications: (Beneficial)
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Skills
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Observability
- Networking
- Java
- PCI DSS








