DevOps Engineer

Rethinkit; Wes-Kaap; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Collaborative engineering environment

Fully remote work opportunity

Job summary

A dynamic technology company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and implement enterprise-grade logging and monitoring solutions for high-performance systems. This fully remote role requires residency in the greater Cape Town area for occasional team meetings and collaboration. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Kubernetes management, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices while working closely with various engineering teams. Competitive compensation and a collaborative environment offered.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with RKE2 and Rancher.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-grade logging and monitoring.
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage production Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Apply security and hardening best practices.

Skills

DevOps / Platform Engineering

Kubernetes management

CI/CD pipelines with GitLab

Networking fundamentals

Security best practices

Containerization with Docker

Tools

GitLab

Helm

RKE2

Rancher

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

Rethinkit City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Direct message the job poster from Rethinkit

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting across our production platforms.

You will be a key contributor in managing a production RKE2 Kubernetes cluster, operated via Rancher, and improving our CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.

The role supports high-performance, highly secure systems for one of the largest stock brokers in the United States.

Note: Candidates must be able to work, when required, US Eastern Time hours (14:00 - 00:00 SAST) as this will be required for production deployments, troubleshooting and collaboration with engineering teams.

This is a fully remote role, but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team lunches and get togethers. It is a hands‑on role working closely with backend, web, and mobile engineering teams as well as the platform team in the US.

Responsibilities

Observability & Reliability

• Design and implement enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting
• Build and maintain centralised log aggregation pipelines
• Define alerting strategies, SLOs, and operational dashboards
• Ensure system health, performance, and reliability in production
• Set up, configure, and manage production Kubernetes clusters (RKE2)
• Deploy and manage workloads using Helm
• Troubleshoot cluster, networking, and workload-level issues
• Apply security and hardening best practices for production systems

CI/CD & Automation

• Build, migrate, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Migrate existing services into standardised pipelines
• Support and maintain pipelines for new services
• Improve developer experience through automation and reusable templates

Security & Networking

• Implement and maintain security best practices
• Manage SSL certificates
• Secure Kubernetes workloads, networks, and CI/CD pipelines
• Work with complex, high-security networking environments

Containers & Software Collaboration

• Set up and maintain Docker containers and registries
• Work closely with backend teams and assist where required
• C++ experience is a bonus

Required Experience

• Senior-level experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• Experience with RKE2 and Rancher
• Strong experience with Helm
• Hands‑on experience with GitLab CI/CD
• Experience implementing:
• Metrics and monitoring
• Alerting strategies
• Strong networking and security fundamentals
• Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems

Nice to Have

• Observability tools such as:
• Grafana
• Loki, ELK, or OpenSearch
• OpenTelemetry
• Experience with Vector for log aggregation
• AWS/GCP experience
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• GitOps workflowsExperience in financial or regulated environments

What We Offer

• Fully remote role, but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team get togethers.
• Work on large-scale, high-performance systems
• Opportunity to contribute to platforms used by one of the largest US stock brokers
• Collaborative engineering environment
• Competitive compensation

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

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