With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Design, implement, and support enterprise DevOps platforms, automation frameworks, and cloud-native delivery pipelines that enable secure, scalable, and reliable software delivery.Job Description
Key Focus Areas- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
- Support cloud-native platforms and container orchestration.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- Enhance reliability through monitoring and observability.
- Enable developer productivity through self-service tooling.
- Implement DevSecOps controls throughout the SDLC.
- Support DevOps and DevSecOps strategies aligned to enterprise objectives.
- Contribute to adoption of modern engineering and automation practices.
- Ensure platform services meet availability and reliability standards.
- Enable faster delivery of customer-facing capabilities.
- Automate operational tasks and optimize platform scalability.
- Support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps adoption.
- Evaluate emerging DevOps tools and technologies.
- Partner with engineering and security teams.
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage Kubernetes and container platforms.
- Implement monitoring and observability solutions.
- Promote DevOps tools, automation and platform standardization.
- Embed security controls into delivery processes.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise standards.
- Implement logging, monitoring, tracing and dashboards.
- Collaborate with developers, architects and business stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
- Industry certifications advantageous: Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), Terraform Associate.
- 5-8 years experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
- 5-8 years' experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience with Docker containerization.
- Experience managing Kubernetes container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and observability solutions.
- Implement DevSecOps controls and security automation throughout the SDLC.
- Drive GitOps and IaC adoption and evaluate emerging DevOps tools.
- Azure DevOps Engineer certification (advantageous).
- AWS DevOps Engineer certification (advantageous).
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification (advantageous).
- RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification (advantageous).
- Terraform Associate certification (advantageous).
Absa Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Absa Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Absa Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical aid, group life, disability, and funeral cover are described as comprehensive, with features such as terminal‑illness advances and beneficiary grocery benefits. Wellness and assistance offerings support overall financial and personal wellbeing.
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Retirement Support — A pension fund and group retirement arrangements are positioned as core benefits within fixed remuneration. Retirement coverage is embedded alongside other protections as part of standard employment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee share‑ownership (eKhaya) and equity‑linked awards broaden wealth‑sharing, with dividends or cash‑equivalent participation in some markets. This provides longer‑term value beyond base pay.
Absa Group Insights
What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
