Remote Lead DevOps Engineer – Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Placements24; Richards Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical aid

Retirement fund

Performance bonuses

Learning opportunities

Conference attendance

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer to drive design, implementation, and maintenance of robust CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation across a fully remote workforce in South Africa.

You will mentor a high-performing team, promote DevOps best practices, ensure high availability and security, and collaborate with development and QA to accelerate software delivery from anywhere in the country.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Eng, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE with 3+ years in leadership.
• Proven cloud experience (AWS or Azure) and security focus.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead scalable cloud infrastructure architecture.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies.
• Mentor DevOps team and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Maintain security hardening and monitoring across environments.
• Draft documentation and drive on-call readiness.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD expertise

Leadership

SRE practices

Networking

Security best practices

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Cloud certifications (optional)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash/Python/PowerShell

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer to drive design, implementation, and maintenance of robust CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation across a fully remote workforce in South Africa.

You will mentor a high-performing team, promote DevOps best practices, ensure high availability and security, and collaborate with development and QA to accelerate software delivery from anywhere in the country.