Remote Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer

VALR; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development allowance

Discretionary bonuses

Tier 5 trading fees (preferential)

Lunch at Johannesburg Head Office

Home office stipend

Job summary

VALR, Johannesburg, is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure with production Kubernetes. You will implement IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD, improving reliability and observability for the VALR platform.

The role requires hands-on cloud, container, and automation expertise in a fast-paced crypto exchange environment. You will collaborate with Engineering and Security teams, automate processes, and contribute to post-incident reviews while ensuring security

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering; production-ready systems.
• Strong experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production; Docker-based environments; Helm/Kustomize templating.
• GitOps tooling (Argo CD/ Flux) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi).
• CI/CD design with GitLab/GitHub; Linux fundamentals; network, TLS, load balancers, firewalls.
• Observability with Prometheus/Grafana; incident response with PagerDuty; scripting with Bash.
• Security focus: IAM, secrets management, access controls, least privilege; AI tooling awareness.
• Independent, owner-centric mindset with cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Manage and improve production Kubernetes environments.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Improve reliability, performance, resilience, and observability of VALR’s platform.
• Automate infrastructure operations and reduce manual tasks.
• Participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex infra, networking, security, and deployment issues.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure and access controls.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Security teams to deliver reliable software.
• Document standards and provide technical guidance to teammates.

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Kustomize

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Pulumi

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Linux

Networking

Prometheus

Grafana

PagerDuty

Bash

IAM

Secrets management

Access controls

Codex/Claude

Job description

VALR, Johannesburg, is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure with production Kubernetes. You will implement IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD, improving reliability and observability for the VALR platform.

The role requires hands-on cloud, container, and automation expertise in a fast-paced crypto exchange environment. You will collaborate with Engineering and Security teams, automate processes, and contribute to post-incident reviews while ensuring security