DevOps Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions in South Africa.

We're searching for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer / SRE in the Payments space to join a system integration partner of ours in Johannesburg.

Please note, this is a 6 month extendable contract.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven track record managing AWS at scale (EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, networking).
• Experience in a Payments-focused background.
• Expertise in observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL and Redis in production.
• Proficiency in CI/CD using GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Experience achieving and maintaining 99.99% uptime in production systems.
• Strong understanding of AWS cost management and optimization.
• Familiarity with incident management p...