DevOps Engineer (Linux)

DevOps Engineer (Linux-Focused, Hybrid Environment)

Permanent

South Africa

Western Cape

Cape Town

The DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and maintain automation and deployment processes across Coronation’s hybrid landscape. The role requires strong Linux expertise with working knowledge of Windows systems, supporting both legacy and modern workloads. The engineer will help drive infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD maturity, container orchestration, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and security.

Infrastructure and Automation:

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for both Windows (.NET) and Linux workloads (native and Kubernetes).
• Maintain automation scripts such as ansible (Linux) and PowerShell (Windows).
• Maintain shared services such as message queueing, object storage, logging infrastructure and reverse proxies.
• Support deployment and scaling of containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
• Manage configuration, provisioning, and patching of servers using infrastructure-as-code principles.

Systems Management:

• Support Windows servers running .NET APIs.
• Administer Linux-based VMs hosting shared services.
• Ensure health monitoring, performance tuning, and log aggregation.
• Maintain and optimise RDMBS databases from a DevOps perspective (backups, performance monitoring, automation).

Monitoring, Security and Compliance:

• Implement observability stack - monitoring, alerting, and logging standards across all systems.
• Contribute to security hardening, secrets management, and patch compliance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory controls.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with software engineers, system administrators, and QA to improve software delivery processes.
• Participate in sprint planning, release coordination, and incident response.
• Provide technical guidance on best practices for DevOps tooling and automation.

• 3 to 6 years of DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related experience.
• Strong experience in Linux server administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, or equivalent).
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.), containerization (Docker), and Shell scripting (Bash).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts (deployments, services, ingress, Helm).
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, Git repositories, and board workflows.
• Competent with Windows administration and PowerShell scripting.
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and reverse proxy configurations (nginx, HAProxy).
• Experience integrating and managing observability tools such as Graylog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Basic SQL Server management and automation experience.
• Strong working knowledge of financial instruments, settlement conventions, and post-trade processes.

Advantegeous:

• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with object storage (S3, MinIO, etc.) and message brokers (RabbitMQ).
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices for .NET and containerized applications.
• Previous experience in environments transitioning to Kubernetes.
• Previous experience in asset management / wealth management industry.

• A completed Information Systems or Computer Science degree, or relevant BTech Degree, is required.
• Further postgraduate studies advantageous.
• Relevant certifications (RHCE, CKAD, Azure DevOps Engineer, etc.) are beneficial.

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• Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS)
• Azure DevOps
• Git
• Ansible or similar (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Docker
• Kubernetes + Helm
• NGINX / HAProxy
• Prometheus / Grafana / Graylog
• PowerShell / Bash
• SQL Server
• Azure Cloud