Azure Cloud Reliability Engineer | Kubernetes & Terraform

OpenTalent; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in South Africa is seeking an experienced platform engineer to operate production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure, implementing Terraform as code. You will own CI/CD pipelines and quality gates for reliable deployments, and drive observability with dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.

You will manage secrets, identity, and network security across environments, collaborating with engineering teams to improve reliability and security posture.

Qualifications

• Production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure experience.
• Terraform code for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure as Terraform code.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with quality gates for reliable deployments.
• Own observability: dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
• Manage secrets, identity, and network security across environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Observability

Secrets management

Identity management

Network security

Dashboards

SLOs

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Job description

OpenTalent in South Africa is seeking an experienced platform engineer to operate production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure, implementing Terraform as code. You will own CI/CD pipelines and quality gates for reliable deployments, and drive observability with dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.

You will manage secrets, identity, and network security across environments, collaborating with engineering teams to improve reliability and security posture.