Senior DevOps Engineer
Boardroom AppointmentsJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted January 5, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Boardroom Appointments, founded in 1989, is a global talent solutions provider delivering recruitment, contract staffing, project staffing, temporary employment, training, HR consultancy, and expatriate mobility services across Africa, EMEA, the Americas, and Europe. Leveraging a deep industry focus that spans FMCG, finance, manufacturing, oil & gas, healthcare, logistics, IT, renewable energy, retail, agriculture, government, and call‑center services, the firm custom‑builds solutions that match each client’s unique talent needs. With a worldwide candidate database and a team of seasoned recruitment and HR professionals, Boardroom Appointments offers end‑to‑end services—from executive search and people analytics to payroll outsourcing and workforce management—ensuring seamless, high‑quality placements that let clients concentrate on their core business. Their distinctive value lies in a partnership model that blends industry expertise, data‑driven insights, and a culture of passion and professionalism to deliver flawless, long‑lasting results.
Job Description
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain our infrastructure and automation pipelines using cutting-edge technologies.
Requirements
- Design, develop, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with software development teams to integrate DevOps best practices into the development process.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Buildkite, and other industry-leading tools.
- Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and security.
- Optimize infrastructure and application performance through automation, load balancing, and scalability techniques.
- Implement security best practices to safeguard cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues.
- Stay relevant with the latest trends and advancements in DevOps, cloud-native tools, and infrastructure technologies.
- Work closely with the company team and partners to ensure smooth operations for customers.
- Engage across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including regular updates and reports on status and progress.
- Manage insights, reporting, and escalations of ongoing operations.
- Become the local expert on the technology of our partner, to the point of being the local representative with full understanding of the operations of the technology stack.