Platform SRE: Azure Cloud Reliability & GitOps Engineer

OfferZen Enterprise; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

OfferZen Enterprise is seeking a Platform Engineer with strong SRE practices to own the reliability, automation, and observability of a cloud-native platform. You’ll work across Terraform, AKS, GitOps with ArgoCD, and Elastic Stack to keep Java microservices running at scale.

You will partner closely with application teams and focus on the systems underneath the applications, not day-to-day business logic triage.

Qualifications

• Azure: Solid hands-on experience with core Azure services in production.
• Terraform: Demonstrable experience writing and maintaining modules, managing state, and working with workspaces.
• Kubernetes/AKS: Real operational experience with cluster upgrades, node pool management, and troubleshooting networking and scheduling issues.
• ArgoCD: Practical GitOps experience specifically with ArgoCD (app-of-apps, sync waves, handling drift).
• Elastic Stack: Experience operating Elasticsearch/Kibana (or ECK on Kubernetes) beyond reading dashboards, including ingestion pipelines, index lifecycle, and scaling.
• SRE fundamentals: Experience with SLOs/SLIs, on-call rotations, and structured incident response and postmortems.
• Scripting/automation: Proficiency in at least one of Bash, Python, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure, including state management and multi-environment workspace strategy
• Operate and evolve AKS clusters: upgrades, node pool scaling, networking (CNI, NSGs), and security posture
• Own the GitOps delivery pipeline using ArgoCD, including app-of-apps structure, sync strategies, and drift detection and remediation
• Run and improve the Elastic Stack observability platform: ingestion pipelines, index lifecycle management, dashboards, and alerting
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs for key services and drive error-budget conversations with engineering teams
• Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident response, and write blameless postmortems for platform-level incidents
• Reduce operational toil through automation, self-service tooling, and golden paths for teams deploying Java microservices
• Partner with backend teams to right-size Kubernetes resource requests/limits, tune JVM behavior in containers, and improve readiness/liveness probes
• Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization across the Azure estate

Skills

Azure

SRE fundamentals

Scripting/automation

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes/AKS

ArgoCD

Elastic Stack

Job description

OfferZen Enterprise is seeking a Platform Engineer with strong SRE practices to own the reliability, automation, and observability of a cloud-native platform. You’ll work across Terraform, AKS, GitOps with ArgoCD, and Elastic Stack to keep Java microservices running at scale.

You will partner closely with application teams and focus on the systems underneath the applications, not day-to-day business logic triage.