Remote Lead DevOps Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD, Kubernetes

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Training budget

Equity options

Bonus potential

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Placements24 seeks an experienced Remote Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead infrastructure and deployment initiatives for a fast-growing cloud-native technology firm. You will lead a distributed team, mentor engineers, and shape the technology stack while promoting automation and continuous improvement.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, manage multi-cloud infrastructure, and implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required or equivalent.
• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or sysadmin with leadership experience.
• Proven cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and infrastructure provisioning.
• Hands-on with CI/CD tools and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and management of CI/CD pipelines for multiple apps and services.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure architecture, deployment, and scaling for high availability.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible.
• Implement and manage Docker and Kubernetes containerization.
• Drive automation across the development lifecycle from code to deployment and monitoring.
• Establish robust monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for health checks.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with development and QA to ensure smooth software delivery.
• Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Job description

Placements24 seeks an experienced Remote Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead infrastructure and deployment initiatives for a fast-growing cloud-native technology firm. You will lead a distributed team, mentor engineers, and shape the technology stack while promoting automation and continuous improvement.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, manage multi-cloud infrastructure, and implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks.