Remote Cloud Infra Engineer | IaC, Kubernetes

Placements24; Vereeniging; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Training sponsorship

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Remote Cloud Infrastructure Deployment Specialist to design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud ecosystems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role emphasizes automation, security, and high availability in a remote-first environment.

You will work with development and operations to optimize deployments, implement containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and apply IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of cloud infrastructure deployment and management.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong networking knowledge (VPCs, subnets, firewalls, load balancers).
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiar with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps.
• Excellent scripting skills (Python, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Deploy and configure cloud services, including VMs, databases, storage, and networking components.
• Use IaC tools for automated provisioning and management.
• Implement and manage Docker and Kubernetes containerization.
• Ensure security, reliability, and performance with monitoring and tuning.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management processes.
• Collaborate with software teams to optimize app deployment in the cloud.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud infra issues.
• Maintain documentation of cloud architecture and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation for incident response and support.

Skills

Cloud infra deployment

Cloud architecture

Networking fundamentals

Python scripting

Problem solving

Remote collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Remote Cloud Infrastructure Deployment Specialist to design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud ecosystems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role emphasizes automation, security, and high availability in a remote-first environment.

You will work with development and operations to optimize deployments, implement containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and apply IaC practices.