Senior Devops and Release Engineer

**Listing reference:** adapt\_000275 **Listing status:** Online **Apply by:** 30 June 2026 **Position summary** **Industry:** Education \& Training **Job category:** IT and Telecommunications **Location:** Midrand **Contract:** Permanent **EE position:** Yes **About our company** Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd is a subsidiary of Adapt IT Holdings Proprietary Limited and a market leader in developing specialised vertical market software and digitally\-led business solutions that assist clients across targeted industries to Achieve More by improving their customer experience, core business operations, business administration and enterprise resource planning. **Introduction** The purpose of the Senior DevOps \& Release Engineer is to manage, coordinate, automate, secure, and execute software builds, releases, and deployments for the ITS Oracle application ecosystem across internal and client environments. The role is responsible for ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient deployment of enterprise Oracle\-based applications, including release packaging, deployment automation, environment management, patching, rollback planning, release governance, operational support, and continuous delivery enablement. The incumbent will work closely with development, DBA, QA, infrastructure, product, support, and architecture teams to ensure high\-quality software releases with minimal operational disruption while continuously improving release engineering, deployment governance, DevOps maturity, and operational resilience. The role further provides technical leadership in deployment strategy, CI/CD automation, environment standardisation, infrastructure enablement, release orchestration, and software distribution processes within the ITS Oracle ecosystem. **Job description** **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** **Release \& Deployment Management** * Manage end\-to\-end application release and deployment activities for ITS Oracle applications. * Create, package, validate, and deploy software builds, patches, service packs, and hotfixes. * Apply release governance and code freeze processes aligned to deployment schedules. * Coordinate deployment schedules, maintenance windows, and planned downtime with internal stakeholders and clients. * Execute deployments across development, testing, staging, pre\-production, and production environments. * Ensure successful rollback planning, deployment recovery procedures, and release validation. * Troubleshoot deployment and environment issues in collaboration with developers, DBAs, QA, infrastructure, and support teams. * Monitor release integrity, deployment success, and operational stability across environments. * Ensure deployment processes support high availability, operational continuity, and minimum business disruption. **DevOps Engineering \& Automation** * Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting Oracle\-based enterprise applications. * Automate build, deployment, validation, monitoring, and operational processes...