Platform & DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & Reliability

Pedros; Durban; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Pedros is seeking a DevOps and Platform Engineer to own and maintain the hosting platform across private hosted environments and public clouds. You will implement automation pipelines, infrastructure as code, and ensure patched, secure, monitored environments with reliable recoverability.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud services on AWS and Azure, and collaborate with the Platform and Engineering Manager to meet hosting standards.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Maintain hosting infrastructure to the standards set by Platform and Engineering Manager.
• Build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines used by the development team.
• Define infrastructure as code so environments can be rebuilt from source control.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and streamline deployments.
• Support developers in deploying and running applications across environments.
• Apply and enforce security hardening across hosted environments.
• Manage backups, recovery, and disaster recovery preparations.
• Monitor, alert, and log hosting platforms; respond to incidents and document root causes.

Skills

Linux administration

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Azure

Networking

Bash scripting

Security hardening

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Pedros is seeking a DevOps and Platform Engineer to own and maintain the hosting platform across private hosted environments and public clouds. You will implement automation pipelines, infrastructure as code, and ensure patched, secure, monitored environments with reliable recoverability.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud services on AWS and Azure, and collaborate with the Platform and Engineering Manager to meet hosting standards.