Remote Kubernetes SRE & Reliability Engineer

Kiberon Labs; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 1,492,000 - 2,156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct founder access

Flexible working hours

Learning budget

Dedicated learning time

Technical ownership of internal/derv

Modern infrastructure focus

Help shape engineering practices

Profit-sharing shares (optional)

Job summary

Kiberon Labs is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and improve reliable full-stack systems running on Kubernetes. You will work directly with the founder, software engineers, and client teams to make production systems more observable, resilient, and easier to operate.

This hands-on role involves investigating failures, automating repetitive tasks, and helping teams adopt practical SRE methods.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Experience supporting large-scale, full-stack production systems.
• Strong AWS infrastructure and operations knowledge.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and production diagnostics.
• Experience responding to incidents and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Strong Linux system administration and performance investigation skills.
• Working knowledge of networking, storage, security, and cloud architecture.
• Software development or scripting skills for automation and internal tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management.
• The ability to explain technical risks and decisions clearly.
• The ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A practical approach to reliability, security, and operational complexity.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Improve the reliability and availability of client applications and services.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
• Investigate production incidents across application and infrastructure layers.
• Improve incident response procedures and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational tasks using code, scripts, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Identify reliability risks before they become production failures.
• Improve deployment pipelines, configuration management, and release safety.
• Diagnose problems across networking, storage, compute, security, and application runtimes.
• Help engineering teams define practical service objectives and reliability measures.
• Document technical decisions and transfer operational knowledge to client teams.
• Contribute to internal technical systems and product development when opportunities arise.

Skills

Kubernetes in prod

AWS infrastructure

Observability & monitoring

Incident response

Linux administration

Networking & security

Automation & scripting

Infrastructure as code

Stakeholder communication

Reliability mindset

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Ansible

Job description

Kiberon Labs is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and improve reliable full-stack systems running on Kubernetes. You will work directly with the founder, software engineers, and client teams to make production systems more observable, resilient, and easier to operate.

This hands-on role involves investigating failures, automating repetitive tasks, and helping teams adopt practical SRE methods.