Intermediate DevOps Engineer at Imqs, Hybrid in Stellenbosch
Imqs · Stellenbosch, Western Cape · Hybrid
Overview
Imqs is hiring an Intermediate DevOps Engineer to work hybrid, preferably in Stellenbosch. You will bridge development and IT operations, building CI/CD pipelines and keeping systems reliable, secure and scalable. This is a great next step for a mid level engineer with around 5 years experience who enjoys automation, monitoring and solving operational problems. If you have strong CI/CD, Windows, scripting and observability skills, this permanent full time role could be a solid move.
About the role
Imqs is looking for an Intermediate DevOps Engineer to join their team on a permanent, full time basis. The role is hybrid, preferably based in Stellenbosch. As a DevOps Engineer, you will bridge the gap between software development and IT operations, helping to deliver secure, reliable and scalable software efficiently.
What you will do:
- Maintain and improve the reliability, consistency and lifecycle of the server and deployment fleet across environments
- Keep observability strong across services, infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows
- Maintain, troubleshoot and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and release tooling
- Respond to operational issues, deployment failures and production incidents with ownership and urgency
- Support infrastructure management and identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks
- Work closely with software engineering teams to close operational gaps and improve delivery reliability
- Contribute to technical decisions, peer reviews, documentation and operational standards
This role suits someone who works methodically, communicates clearly during incidents and is always looking for ways to improve efficiency and reliability.
Requirements
- Around 5 years experience in Software Development or DevOps (junior or intermediate roles considered based on experience)
- High competency in CI/CD
- High competency in Windows
- Medium competency in Linux
- Medium competency in networking
- Medium competency in containerisation
- High competency in scripting, including Bash or Bat and Ruby, Python or Go
- Knowledge of databases and storage
- Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Experience with SRE and observability best practices
- High competency in observability best practices and architecting
- High competency in disaster recovery experience
- Medium competency in cloud infrastructure
- High competency in security
- Knowledge of standards such as ISO 90001 and/or 27001
- ITIL Foundation qualification
- Comfortable using AI as an enabler
- Strong focus on improvement, efficiency and reliability
- Relevant degree or diploma advantageous, but not required
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve the reliability, consistency and lifecycle management of the server and deployment fleet across environments
- Support infrastructure standards, configuration consistency, capacity awareness, patching coordination and environment hygiene
- Maintain and improve observability across services, infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows
- Ensure monitoring coverage, alert quality, dashboard usefulness, log availability and actionable telemetry evolve as the platform changes
- Maintain, troubleshoot and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release tooling, environment promotion and rollback readiness
- Work with development teams to make releases repeatable, visible, auditable and less dependent on manual intervention
- Respond to operational issues, deployment failures, infrastructure alerts and production impacting incidents with appropriate urgency and ownership
- Contribute to root cause analysis, post incident learning, preventative action and operational runbook improvements
- Support operational management of infrastructure components, deployment hosts, automation scripts, configuration repositories and supporting services
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual, error prone maintenance
- Work closely with software engineering teams to close operational gaps in deployment readiness, runtime diagnostics, environment consistency and support handover
- Highlight and help address gaps in observability, CI/CD maturity, fleet management, infrastructure documentation, operational ownership and preventative maintenance
- Maintain awareness of relevant work across the team and contribute to technical decisions, peer reviews, implementation quality and operational documentation
- Verify that implementations meet agreed requirements, engineering standards, security expectations and operational outcomes, and escalate risks or gaps where appropriate
Job details
- Organisation
- Imqs
- Location
- Stellenbosch, Western Cape
- Job type
- Full time
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Experience level
- Mid (5+ years)
- Category
- IT & Software Development
- Application Method
- Apply manually
Success Guide
Hey there! If you are a mid level DevOps engineer looking to grow your career, this Intermediate DevOps Engineer role at Imqs in Stellenbosch could be a great fit. The job is hybrid, so you will get a mix of office and remote work. When you apply, make sure your CV clearly shows your hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools and scripting languages like Python or Bash. They are also big on security and disaster recovery, so highlight any projects where you improved system reliability or automated manual tasks. In the interview, be ready to talk through real incidents you have handled and how you made systems more stable. This is a permanent role with a strong focus on improvement, so show your problem solving side and your ability to work well with developers. Good luck!
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