Remote Principal DevOps Engineer — CI/CD & Cloud Leader

Placements24

Rustenburg

Hybrid

ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Remote‑first company

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of scalable CI/CD pipelines in a distributed, remote-first environment. You will automate infrastructure, drive automation, and foster a strong DevOps culture across multiple projects.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with development and QA teams, and champion IaC, continuous integration, and delivery practices to sustain high availability and rapid delivery.

Qualifications

8+ years in system administration, software engineering, or DevOps roles.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with IaC tools.
Develop and manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm).
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure health and performance.
Collaborate with development and QA to optimize the SDLC.
Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices.
Tackle production incidents and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD practices

Mentoring

Remote work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Equivalent extensive experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with development and QA teams, and champion IaC, continuous integration, and delivery practices to sustain high availability and rapid delivery.

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