DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer Site Reliability Engineer - WatersEdge Solutions

OpenTalent; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WatersEdge Solutions in Cape Town seeks a DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer to define SLOs/SLIs, craft observability stacks and automate toil for reliability. You will work with Azure and Kubernetes, implement monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog, and drive post‑mortems to prevent recurrence.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in SRE, strong automation skills and a passion for building robust, scalable systems in the cloud.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of site reliability engineer experience.
• Proficiency with monitoring tools Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Strong automation and scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and track SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
• Design and implement observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Automate toil and improve system reliability through engineering.
• Conduct post-mortems and drive blameless incident retrospectives.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Monitoring & observability

Automation scripting

Azure cloud

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Kubernetes

Job description

DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer Site Reliability Engineer at WatersEdge Solutions.

Key technologies: Azure, Kubernetes.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and track SLOs, SLIs and error budgets
• Design and implement observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Automate toil and improve system reliability through engineering
• Conduct post-mortems and drive blameless incident retrospectives

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in site reliability engineer
• Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Strong programming skills for automation and tooling