Equalexperts
Senior DevOps Engineer
South Africa
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- Role family
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Country
- ZA
- Work mode
- On-site / unstated
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- 4 Sept 2026
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- Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for
- blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important
- projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
- channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to
- assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.
- We see operability as a fundamental tenet of our approach to building and delivering software. The
- reasoning? The role is not simply about facilitating the continuous delivery of quality software; we focus
- on the operational requirements we deliver to ensure that software runs in production, as desired.
- Our Operability Engineers draw on all their experience of DevOps practices in what’s a very hands-on,
- collaborative role – actively pairing with others to share knowledge and increase the delivery team’s
- maturity around Operability.
- This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous
- integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well
- as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.
- Responsibilities
- ● Influence, collaborate, and manage expectations with immediate stakeholders and the team.
- ● Build with consideration for the customer's ability to support and maintain the software.
- ● Provide support and leadership by mentoring client team members.
- ● Clearly communicate technical concepts or ideas to any audience.
- ● Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environments.
- Required Skills
- ● Open and capable of pair or mob programming. Can work closely with developers in cross-functional teams.
- ● Programming language and coding experience (e.g., able to build a simple service with automated tests).
- ● Strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.
- ● Delivers small pieces of work continuously. Prefers shorter feedback loops and aims for all work to go to production.
- ● Understands when and why to use a branching strategy and recognizes when a branching strategy has gone too far.
- ● Strong technical background in build, release, and environments, with experience and expertise in software build tools, CI tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, and Github Actions.
- ● Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows. Comfortable working on the command line.
- ● Solid understanding of Cloud Computing providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience with functions, containers, and virtual machines.
- ● Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM,Pulumi).
- ● Understanding of telemetry practices (monitoring, graphing, alerting, anomaly detection) and tools (e.g., Elastic, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu, Prometheus).
- ● Proficient in network implementation, debugging network issues, and collaborating with networking teams to build and maintain networks.
- ● Experience running, operating, and supporting software in production.
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