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Step into a DevOps Engineer role in Komatipoort and make your mark across Mpumalanga. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.
About the Opportunity
This DevOps Engineer role has been briefed against a clear set of outcomes for Komatipoort. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the it jobs pipeline across Mpumalanga.
Communication runs both ways. Managers across the it jobs team in Mpumalanga make time for one-to-ones, and people are expected to speak up early when something needs attention.
The role has been written to be sustainable, not just busy. Strong output is expected, and managers in Komatipoort also pay attention to recovery, learning and the kind of breathing room that keeps people doing good work over time.
Our Commitment to Transformation
Inclusion is a core part of how the team operates. This is an equal-opportunity employer, and candidates from all communities — including women, youth and persons living with disabilities — are encouraged to apply for this role in Komatipoort.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Komatipoort.
Why This Role
You will join a team that values respectful collaboration, honest feedback and shared wins. The Komatipoort colleagues take pride in supporting one another and in doing the it jobs side of the business properly, day in and day out.
Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Komatipoort teams.
Equally, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Komatipoort keep progressing.
A Typical Day
Your day tends to start with a quick standup, where the team shares progress and surfaces blockers. From there, you settle into focused build time, breaking tickets into manageable chunks and pairing with colleagues when something gets thorny. Afternoons mix code reviews, planning discussions and the occasional production incident — everyone pulls together, fixes the issue and feeds the lessons back into the next sprint. By the time you sign off, you’ve shipped value, learned something new, and left clean code behind you.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Komatipoort.
Crucially, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Mpumalanga operations throw up the unexpected.
Key Outputs
- Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
- Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions
- Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
Essential Criteria
- Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
- Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
If most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.