Remote DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer – AWS/Terraform

Black Pen Recruitment; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist software vendor in South Africa is seeking a skilled infrastructure engineer to work remotely. You will develop and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions using modern automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. Ideal candidates have strong Python skills and experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization. This role requires independent work within core hours, thriving in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Expertise in infrastructure engineering and automation tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration.
• Strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and infrastructure security.

Responsibilities

• Join a team focused on infrastructure resilience and automation.
• Build, maintain, and evolve a cloud-hosted environment.
• Contribute broadly to the infrastructure landscape.

Skills

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Configuration management with Ansible

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Containerization (LXC, LXD, Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD tooling (TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Server monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog)

Strong Python programming skills

Solid Linux administration and general networking knowledge

Understanding of infrastructure security best practices

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and system observability

Job description

A specialist software vendor in South Africa is seeking a skilled infrastructure engineer to work remotely. You will develop and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions using modern automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. Ideal candidates have strong Python skills and experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization. This role requires independent work within core hours, thriving in a distributed environment.