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Datafin

DevOps Engineer (CPT Hybrid)

Datafin

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Executive position
  • Cape Town
  • Posted 20 Aug 2026 by Datafin
  • Expires in 28 days
  • Job 2644111 - Ref 2608309
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About the position

ENVIRONMENT:

A DevOps Engineer with a security-first mindset who is passionate about building scalable, reliable systems is wanted to join the team of a cutting-edge global FinTech company committed to delivering funding products to small-to-medium sized businesses. This is a role for someone who takes genuine ownership — running projects end to end and delivering meaningful improvements to our infrastructure, tooling, and engineering maturity. The successful incumbent must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineer or similar field with a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering including ands-on experience with AWS across serverless and containerised workloads (including Docker), e.g. Lambda, ECS, and API Gateway.

DUTIES:

Infrastructure & Delivery -

  • Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI) to automate and streamline software delivery.
  • Provision and manage AWS infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform), designing containerised and serverless architectures (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway) across multi-account environments that scale with traffic and a growing team.

Reliability & Security -

  • Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g. CloudWatch, New Relic), and troubleshooting issues across infrastructure, deployments, and application performance.
  • Apply a security-first approach — secure defaults, least privilege, threat-aware thinking — and work with cloud security and scanning tooling (Cloudflare, Aikido) to strengthen the platform’s posture.
  • Be available on call during peak or product launch periods when required.

Platform, Collaboration & Ownership -

  • Provide day-to-day operations and infrastructure support and build internal tooling and platform capabilities to Support Engineers as the team grows.
  • Administer third-party service-provider instances and integrations (e.g. Zoho CRM, Slack, n8n) and endpoint/identity tooling (Microsoft Entra ID, Intune) where they intersect with developer experience and security.
  • Take ownership of DevOps and security projects, running them end to end, while guiding Engineers and championing an AI-forward approach to raise productivity and quality.
  • Document processes, procedures, and configurations to ensure consistency and repeatability.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications –

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Experience/Skills –

  • 3-5 Years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS across serverless and containerised workloads (including Docker), e.g. Lambda, ECS, and API Gateway.
  • Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery (They use CircleCI; similar tooling is fine).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code — Terraform preferred (equivalent tools such as CloudFormation are fine).
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
  • Experience with Git-based source control (e.g. GitHub).
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts.

Preferred to haves –

  • DevSecOps experience, embedding security throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
  • Exposure to security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, DORA, or GDPR.
  • Platform Engineering experience — building self-service tooling, reusable IaC modules, or paved-road workflows for other Engineers.
  • Experience administering endpoint, identity, and security tooling (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID, Intune, Cloudflare, Aikido) and managing third-party service-provider instances (e.g. Zoho CRM, Slack, n8n).
  • Experience with observability tooling and managed relational databases (e.g. CloudWatch, New Relic, RDS Aurora / PostgreSQL).
  • Experience working in a regulated FinTech or Financial Services environment.

ATTRIBUTES:

  • A security-first mindset: secure defaults, least privilege, and threat-aware design.
  • Genuine comfort and proficiency using AI tools in day-to-day Engineering work, with an AI-forward mindset.

Desired Skills:

  • DevOps
  • Engineer
  • CPT

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Datafin

About the agency

Datafin Recruitment was established in 1999 and is one of South Africa’s leading Recruitment companies. Owned and managed by two sisters Lindy and Bev Sollinger, we focus on connecting with both our clients and candidates in an authentic conscious meaningful manner. We focus on the Tech, Digital/Online, Data, Finance and HR industries.

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