Remote DevOps Lead — CI/CD & Cloud Infra Architect

Placements24; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to join a remote-first engineering team. You will drive DevOps best practices, automate infrastructure, and ensure reliability and scalability of pipelines. The role focuses on building robust CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and fostering collaboration between development and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong IaC and cloud experience, and a passion for enabling autonomous, high-performance teams in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/engineering.
• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or sysadmin roles.
• Proven experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• IaC expertise (Terraform/Ansible/Puppet).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Monitoring/logging tools experience.
• Networking and security best practices.
• Excellent remote collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for build, test, deployment.
• Develop and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Implement IaC using Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, improve availability.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce manual work.
• Collaborate with development teams for smooth deployments.
• Implement and manage Docker and Kubernetes.
• Maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues promptly.
• Promote DevOps culture and best practices across the org.

Skills

Remote collaboration

Automation engineering

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell

Networking basics

Security best practices

Software delivery

DevOps culture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Datadog

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to join a remote-first engineering team. You will drive DevOps best practices, automate infrastructure, and ensure reliability and scalability of pipelines. The role focuses on building robust CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and fostering collaboration between development and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong IaC and cloud experience, and a passion for enabling autonomous, high-performance teams in a remote setting.