Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 03/26/2026 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 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: 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: Keycloak ActiveMQ WebLogic 14c Certifications (Beneficial) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate #J-18808-Ljbffr