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DevOps Engineer

Automate deployment and infrastructure to improve reliability and delivery speed.

payments Avg: R75,000

description Overview

DevOps Engineers manage CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response practices. Roles often sit close to engineering and platform teams.

**A Day in the Life:**
Pipeline work, infrastructure changes, monitoring alerts, and reliability improvements.

schedule A Day in the Life

08:30

Review monitoring alerts and incidents

10:00

CI/CD pipeline improvements

13:00

Infrastructure changes and automation

15:30

Security patches and reliability work

trending_up Career Path

Step 1

Junior DevOps / SysAdmin

0-2

Step 2

DevOps Engineer

2-5

Step 3

Senior DevOps / SRE

5-8

Step 4

Platform Lead / Head of Infrastructure

8+

Vital Statistics

Salary Range

R 40,000 - R 130,000

Soft Skills

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Technical Skills

api API Design (REST/GraphQL) sync CI/CD Pipelines security Cybersecurity Fundamentals analytics Data Analysis lock Data Privacy & Handling dns Docker merge Git / Version Control terminal Linux Administration (Basics) terminal Linux Basics monitor_heart Observability (Logs/Metrics/Tracing) Basics lock POPIA/GDPR Data Protection Basics api Postman / API Testing bar_chart Power BI storage SQL (Advanced) bug_report Test Automation