Azure DevOps Engineer (SRE): Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability

Recruit-It; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid/Remote options

Wellness program

Home office stipend

Learning & development

ESOP

Job summary

Recruit-It in South Africa is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps/SRE to own production Kubernetes workloads on Azure, manage Terraform-backed infrastructure, and drive reliable deployments.

You will champion observability with Prometheus and Grafana, implement SLOs, incident response, secrets management, and security across environments while partnering with engineering to boost reliability.

Hybrid/remote options available; attractive compensation and ESOP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Cloud/Kubernetes certification (e.g. Azure, CKA) advantageous.
• Proven experience operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale; strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a hybrid/remote team.

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.
• Partners with engineering teams to troubleshoot and improve reliability.

Skills

Cloud & Kubernetes operations

CI/CD automation

Observability & SRE practices

Shell scripting & Linux

Security & secrets management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Azure (AKS, ADLS Gen2, Key Vault, Entra ID)

Kubernetes production ops (Helm, operators)

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Prometheus/Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Unix shell scripting

Secret management tooling

Job description

Recruit-It in South Africa is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps/SRE to own production Kubernetes workloads on Azure, manage Terraform-backed infrastructure, and drive reliable deployments.

You will champion observability with Prometheus and Grafana, implement SLOs, incident response, secrets management, and security across environments while partnering with engineering to boost reliability.

Hybrid/remote options available; attractive compensation and ESOP.