Job description
- Location:Sandton
- Employee Type:Permanent
- Department:ITS
- Division:Central Services
DevOps Engineer (ITS) (13396)
Description
Investec is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build, evolve, and operate the CI/CD platform that enables safe, fast, secure delivery across the enterprise. This role focuses on automation, pipeline reliability, developer enablement, and platform engineering.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, build and maintain shared CI/CD pipeline templates.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability and operational excellence.
• Implement automated tests, policy checks, approvals and rollback mechanisms.
• Build reusable automation frameworks and paved paths.
• Reduce cognitive load via standardization, documentation and templates.
• Partner with teams to accelerate onboarding and usage of the CI/CD platform.
• Integrate security scans, dependency checks, SBOM generation and guardrails.
• Enforce supported component versions and policy-as-code.
• Provide pipeline insights, workflow metrics and end-to-end traceability.
• Optimize build queues, reliability, and performance.
• Champion DevOps and platform engineering best practices.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
• 5+ years DevOps/platform engineering experience.
• Strong experience in Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions.
• Proficient in YAML pipelines, automation, scripting.
• Knowledge of container pipelines, secure scanning and governance.
Investec Culture
At Investec we look for intelligent, energetic people filled with passion, integrity and curiosity. We value individuals who in turn value our culture that is, a flexible attitude comfortable to live with ambiguity and willing to challenge the status quo. Diversity, talent and leadership are respected in pursuit of the growth of our business. People who can manage themselves and build strong relationships in order to get things done, will perform in out of the ordinary ways in our environment.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.



