DevOps Engineer

Bring your skills as a DevOps Engineer to Hermanus and join a team that moves fast. This Western Cape role is one to watch.

Overview

The DevOps Engineer position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Western Cape. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Hermanus and across the it jobs space.

On top of that, the role suits a candidate who values consistency and clear communication. The Hermanus operation runs on accurate work, steady relationships and a genuine respect for the people in the team.

Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the it jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Hermanus much easier.

Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the it jobs group in Hermanus.

Beyond that, the role has been written to be sustainable, not just busy. Strong output is expected, and managers in Hermanus also pay attention to recovery, learning and the kind of breathing room that keeps people doing good work over time.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 Hermanus.

Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Hermanus.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Western Cape.

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.

Your Future Here

This role can grow with you. Strong performers in the it jobs team in Hermanus have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.

Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.

Internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Hermanus have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Western Cape.

Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Hermanus team member.

What Your Day Looks Like

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 Hermanus.

Crucially, the Hermanus office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.

Crucially, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Western Cape operations throw up the unexpected.

Based in Hermanus

Equally, the role is based in Hermanus, near the V&A Waterfront precinct. Public transport links and parking are within easy reach, making the daily commute manageable for candidates living across Hermanus and the broader Western Cape region.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Hermanus, Western Cape.

Many candidates already living within reach of Hermanus cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Western Cape economy.

Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Hermanus.

Where You’ll Work

Beyond that, the environment is hybrid-friendly where the role allows, with collaborative tooling, modern source-control workflows and a strong emphasis on shared ownership of code and incidents.

A respectful, professional environment is the standard in Western Cape. Bullying, harassment and unfair conduct have no place here, and managers are trained to act decisively when concerns are raised.

Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Hermanus site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

Importantly, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

Why Join Us

You will join a team that values respectful collaboration, honest feedback and shared wins. The Hermanus colleagues take pride in supporting one another and in doing the it jobs side of the business properly, day in and day out.

Benefits are clear and consistent. Beyond the package on offer, the role includes the supports you would expect from an established South African employer in Western Cape.

Importantly, 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 Hermanus keep progressing.

Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Hermanus teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and runbooks
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
• Design, develop and maintain features across the application stack
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime

What You’ll Need

• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Relevant IT qualification (degree, diploma or recognised certifications)
• Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling

Candidates who meet most of these criteria are welcome to be considered for the role.