Expert Infrastructure Engineer

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Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Agency • Information Technology • Professional Services
The Role
Design, build, and operate production-grade infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and event-driven services. Develop Python and Bash tooling, manage Terraform and Ansible automation, implement monitoring and alerting, and create resilient remediation workflows. Support Zero Trust initiatives across global environments while ensuring scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and operational reliability. Participate in incident response and on-call activities.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re looking for an Expert Infrastructure Engineer who doesn’t just keep infrastructure running; you automate it, improve it, and make it smarter.

This is a hands-on role for someone who loves Python, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and cloud automation, and who gets excited about building systems that can do the heavy lifting themselves.

You’ll be working on a global Zero Trust transformation, helping create secure, automated and AI-enabled services across identity, connectivity, workspace, data and security environments.


What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, build and operate automation and orchestration solutions across infrastructure, security, workflows and operational processes.
  • Develop powerful automation tooling, scripts and reusable libraries using Python and Bash.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline.
  • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Automate configuration and deployments using Ansible.
  • Design and operate workflow orchestration using technologies such as Temporal, Camunda and AWS Step Functions.
  • Build event-driven and long-running automated processes.
  • Create SOAR-style runbooks and automated remediation solutions to reduce manual incident response.
  • Integrate systems using REST APIs, webhooks, message brokers and event-driven technologies.
  • Build automated API and regression testing into your solutions.
  • Make your automation idempotent, reliable and resilient, with smart retry, compensation and error-handling patterns.
  • Monitor automation in production using metrics, structured logging and tracing.
  • Define and maintain operational targets such as availability, latency and MTTR.
  • Own automation alerting, operational runbooks and participate in incident response/on-call activities.
  • Help ensure automation solutions are scalable, highly available and fault tolerant.

Requirements

You’ll need 6+ years of hands-on experience in Automation Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or a closely related field.

We’re particularly interested in someone who has owned production-grade automation and can confidently work across:

Python + Bash + Linux + CI/CD + Terraform + Ansible + Cloud + Orchestration

You should be someone who enjoys solving complex problems, improving processes and figuring out how to make things work better, faster and with less manual intervention.

We’re looking for an engineer who takes ownership, pays attention to detail and isn't afraid to get stuck into a tricky production problem.


Your Tech Playground

Must-Have

  • Python
  • Bash / Linux
  • CI/CD
    • GitHub Actions
    • Jenkins
    • AWS CodePipeline
  • Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
  • Ansible
  • REST APIs / Webhooks
  • API testing and automated regression testing
  • Workflow and process orchestration
  • Event-driven automation
  • Production monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Idempotency, retries, compensation patterns and robust error handling

 

Nice to Have

  • AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon S3
  • API Gateway
  • CloudWatch
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • SNS/SQS
  • EventBridge
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Security automation
  • Zero Trust
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • ArgoCD
  • Flux
  • OPA / Policy-as-Code
  • GitOps
  • SOAR and automated remediation
  • High-availability and fault-tolerant architectures
  • Reusable automation libraries and developer-friendly APIs

Certifications – Bonus Points

These would be advantageous:

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Benefits
  • Work on a global technology landscape
  • Flexible working model based on 1,960 hours over a 12-month period
  • Strong work-life balance
  • Remote / on-site flexibility
  • Modern, state-of-the-art offices
  • Work alongside dynamic global teams
  • Agile working environment
  • Fast-paced and energetic technology environment
  • Opportunities to work with cloud, automation, DevOps, security and Zero Trust technologies
  • Competitive vehicle purchase/leasing benefits available, subject to applicable terms and conditions

Skills Required

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in Automation Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a closely related field
  • Professional experience with Python
  • Professional experience with Bash and Linux
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline
  • Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with Ansible
  • Experience with REST APIs and webhooks
  • Experience with API testing and automated regression testing
  • Experience with workflow and process orchestration
  • Experience with event-driven automation
  • Experience with production monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Knowledge of idempotency, retries, compensation patterns, and robust error handling
  • AWS experience
  • Experience with AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, or EventBridge
  • Experience with AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault
  • Experience with security automation and Zero Trust
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ArgoCD, Flux, OPA, or GitOps
  • Experience with SOAR and automated remediation
  • Experience designing high-availability and fault-tolerant architectures
  • Experience developing reusable automation libraries and developer-friendly APIs
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
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