Azure Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & CI/CD Lead

DVT

Midrand

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

DVT is hiring an Azure Platform Engineer to join our cloud team in South Africa. You will own the production Kubernetes platform end-to-end, build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines, and drive automation and IaC practices across development, testing, and production environments.

The role requires strong Kubernetes, Terraform, and scripting skills, plus experience with incident response and observability. Join a client-facing team delivering scalable cloud solutions across sectors.

Qualifications

4+ years in infrastructure/platform/SRE roles.
Production-grade Kubernetes experience (CKA preferred or equivalent depth).
Strong Terraform; remote state, modules, CI-driven apply on Azure.
Proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash.
Hands-on incident response experience — on-call and post-mortems.
Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, ingress controllers.
Linux administration fluency.

Responsibilities

Own the production Kubernetes platform end-to-end; reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
Create and maintain the Azure DevOps build and deployment pipelines; implement IaC scripts.
Define and track SLOs/SLIs for services and manage incident response processes.
Maintain and improve the observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
Maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; enforce security scanning and policy gates.