DevOps Administrator (Azure)

Talent Shore; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Annual Leave

South African Public Holidays

Job summary

A tech-focused company is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to manage and scale a cloud-native platform primarily within Microsoft Azure. The role involves ensuring platform reliability and scalability, supporting client deployments, and collaborating with engineering teams. Experience with Azure is essential, along with a DevOps mindset. This position offers remote working, 25 days of annual leave, and the opportunity to work on projects in the space and defense market.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure is essential.
• Knowledge of MongoDB and serverless architecture is required.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage and scale Dev, Test, and Production environments.
• Ensure platform portability across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Support customer deployments and installation environments.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

MongoDB

DevOps mindset

Python or scripting

Job description

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 16/03/2026

Remote working - Anywhere in South Africa (Must have legal rights to work)

Overview

This is a strategic DevOps role responsible for managing and scaling a cloud-native platform, primarily within Azure, while benefiting from other cross-cloud capabilities (AWS/GCP). The role is both technical and client-facing, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and scale Dev, Test, and Production environments
• Ensure platform portability across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
• Support customer deployments and installation environments
• Identify system improvements, risks, and optimization opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure and scaling strategies
• Set up and operationalize LLMs and MCP-based services

Requirements

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure (essential)
• Knowledge of MongoDB and serverless architecture (Azure Functions)
• Experience with multi-cloud environments - Nice To Have (AWS/GCP)
• DevOps mindset with problem-solving and proactive improvement focus
• Ability to engage with clients and support technical implementations

Nice to Have

• Experience with LLMs, MCP frameworks, or AI integrations
• Python or scripting experience
• Exposure to virtual desktop environments (AVD)
• Configure and maintain Azure based platform to operate the Azure AD services, MongoDB instances, Azure function instances.
• Define equivalent Google and AWS implementations
• Work with development team on scaling and implementation of Dev, Test and Prod environments
• Administrate internal AVD environment with 4 client configurations

Remote Working

25 Days Annual Leave + South African Public Holidays

The chance to work with a company doing the following:

We're building a platform for materials information, materials testing, and certification, and these kinds of things, which is mainly used in the space and defence markets, as well as automotive.

We work on medical devices.

Our target market are businesses that really care about their brand, about the materials they use, i.e., companies like Apple.

Apple phones for example the materials is a key part of the design or even developing aircraft or spacecraft that need to do more challenging missions. So from an engineering perspective, that's what we're doing.