Remote Cloud Infra Architect - Scale, Automate & Secure

Placements24; Vereeniging; Hybrid; ZAR 720,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Health insurance

Paid time off

Learning & certifications

Equity potential

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Remote Cloud Infrastructure Specialist to join our technology team. This fully remote role allows you to contribute from anywhere in South Africa as you design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.

You will implement IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible; develop CI/CD pipelines; monitor performance and security; and collaborate with development teams to ensure reliable, automated deployments.

Qualifications

• Proven design, deployment and management of cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.
• CI/CD proficiency with Jenkins, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps.
• Containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting in Python or Bash; solid networking knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain IaC pipelines.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments.
• Monitor performance, security and cost, applying optimizations.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and participate in on‑call rotations.
• Collaborate with development teams to meet app requirements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

IaC

CI/CD

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Networking concepts

Monitoring & security

Remote collaboration

Education

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Remote Cloud Infrastructure Specialist to join our technology team. This fully remote role allows you to contribute from anywhere in South Africa as you design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.

You will implement IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible; develop CI/CD pipelines; monitor performance and security; and collaborate with development teams to ensure reliable, automated deployments.