Remote Lead Cloud Infra Architect | Kubernetes & CI/CD

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work arrangement

Home office setup budget

Health insurance

Continued learning & conference access

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Lead Software Engineer to head a remote Cloud Infrastructure team for a fast-growing SaaS company with a global footprint. You will architect, develop, and maintain high-availability cloud services from a home office, shaping the technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering with cloud, DevOps, and containerization expertise across AWS/GCP/Azure, plus strong leadership in remote settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field and 8+ years in software engineering with cloud infra focus.
• Experience leading remote engineering teams and delivering scalable cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and maintenance of scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Oversee Kubernetes-based container orchestration and infra security.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical strategy and roadmap.
• Collaborate with product teams to translate requirements into infrastructure solutions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Python

Go/Java/Node.js

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Lead Software Engineer to head a remote Cloud Infrastructure team for a fast-growing SaaS company with a global footprint. You will architect, develop, and maintain high-availability cloud services from a home office, shaping the technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering with cloud, DevOps, and containerization expertise across AWS/GCP/Azure, plus strong leadership in remote settings.