Platform & DevOps Engineer: Automation & Security

Pedros Chicken; Durban; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pedros Chicken is seeking a DevOps and Platform Engineer to design, deploy and operate the hosting platform for its applications. You will maintain private hosted environments and leverage public clouds when required, ensuring patching, security, monitoring and recoverability.

Build and run automation and CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable deployment across environments. You will work under the Platform and Engineering Manager, implementing infrastructure as code, managing secrets, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or hosting roles, running production systems.
• Hands-on experience implementing and running virtual machines and services in privately hosted environments, including virtualisation platforms.
• Working experience with AWS and Azure services, enough to implement and maintain them where needed.
• Strong Linux server administration.
• Containerisation experience with Docker and an orchestrator such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes, including reverse proxies and load balancing.
• Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, firewalls, VPNs, segmentation).
• Backup, restore and disaster recovery experience, including tested restores.
• Monitoring, logging and alerting familiarity.
• Identity and access management knowledge (least privilege, SSO, OAuth).
• Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Clear written documentation and compliance discipline.
• Willingness to participate in out-of-hours support.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure hosting management for VMs and services in private environments.
• Maintain public cloud services (AWS/Azure) as needed.
• Automate deployment via CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Implement security hardening, access control and secret management.
• Manage backups, recovery plans and disaster recovery testing.
• Monitor, alert and respond to incidents; document root causes and actions.
• Handle change control through IT processes and maintain traceability.
• Manage costs with tagging and resource right-sizing, provide usage data.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with Platform and Engineering Manager and developers.

Job description

Pedros Chicken is seeking a DevOps and Platform Engineer to design, deploy and operate the hosting platform for its applications. You will maintain private hosted environments and leverage public clouds when required, ensuring patching, security, monitoring and recoverability.

Build and run automation and CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable deployment across environments. You will work under the Platform and Engineering Manager, implementing infrastructure as code, managing secrets, and