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 organisation.

This is a hybrid role, based in Johannesburg.

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

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

Why work for us?

Want to work for an organisation that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.?

You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.?

Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.?