Remote DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & IaC Pro

Placements24; Vereeniging; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Learning opportunities

Global team

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a skilled Remote DevOps Engineer to join a fully distributed FinTech team. You will design, implement and manage scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), build robust CI/CD pipelines, and apply IaC practices to automate deployments.

You will collaborate with development and operations to enhance performance, security, and reliability, while participating in on-call rotations in a remote-first setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 4 years of DevOps/SRE experience.
• Proven cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/Chef).
• Automate operations with Python/Bash/PowerShell.
• Monitor performance, optimize, and secure cloud environments.
• Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Support on-call rotations and incident response.
• Collaborate with development teams to resolve deployment issues.
• Establish logging, monitoring and alerting systems.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

IaC

Docker/Kubernetes

Security best practices

On-call rotations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a skilled Remote DevOps Engineer to join a fully distributed FinTech team. You will design, implement and manage scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), build robust CI/CD pipelines, and apply IaC practices to automate deployments.

You will collaborate with development and operations to enhance performance, security, and reliability, while participating in on-call rotations in a remote-first setup.