TRAFFIC Gauteng

Site Reliability Engineer

Blue Pearl PTY

Job Description

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

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R44,155/month

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Job Overview

Date Posted

26 Apr 2026

Location

Gauteng, South Africa

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