Introduction

An established organisation is seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer - SaaS Platform to join its team in Phuthaditjhaba. This role supports a business that is investing in platform stability, product delivery, and stronger digital capability. The position offers the opportunity to work on meaningful systems, applications, infrastructure, or digital services depending on the portfolio and team structure.

The successful candidate will work with technical and non-technical stakeholders and will contribute to solutions that improve business efficiency, user experience, and operational resilience. The successful candidate will be expected to work with appropriate urgency, maintain quality standards, and support a collaborative delivery culture while contributing to business-facing outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities

The successful candidate will contribute across solution delivery, support, optimisation, and stakeholder engagement within a structured IT environment.

Contribute to resilience, scalability, and service continuity planning.
Follow change management, security, and operational governance requirements consistently.
Assist with deployments, configuration changes, patching, backup checks, and recovery readiness.
Support infrastructure, cloud, network, security, or platform components to maintain availability, performance, and control.
Monitor environments, investigate incidents, and implement corrective actions or preventative improvements.
Work with internal stakeholders, service providers, and project teams on upgrades, enhancements, and issue resolution.
Maintain documentation for environments, processes, access control, and change activities.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Applicants should bring a solid technical foundation together with the ability to work in a structured, deadline-driven environment.

Relevant diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Development, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Exposure to infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, monitoring, administration, or environment support relevant to the role.
Understanding of operational controls, technical troubleshooting, and change management discipline.
Good working knowledge of documentation standards, structured problem-solving, and stakeholder communication.
Typically suited to candidates with around 1–3 years practical experience or strong graduate-level exposure.