Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Placements24; Rustenburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Health, dental and vision insurance

Professional development budget

Competitive salary

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a seasoned Remote Senior DevOps Engineer to join a distributed team. You will automate deployment pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure reliability and security from anywhere in the world.

This remote-first role offers collaboration with a global team, modern tech stack, and opportunities to drive automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement across our infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or sysadmin roles.
• Strong expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency in Python/Bash and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for deployments and infra provisioning.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure for HA, scalability and security.
• Develop and maintain IaC with Terraform/Ansible.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting to detect issues proactively.
• Collaborate with development and operations to troubleshoot production incidents.
• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Scripting

Terraform/Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

About the Role

Our client is seeking a seasoned Remote Senior DevOps Engineer to join their distributed team. This position is critical for building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructure that supports our client's cutting-edge applications. You will be responsible for automating deployment pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system reliability and security from anywhere in the world. This role offers the unique opportunity to work with a talented, globally dispersed team on challenging projects, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement in a fully remote-first environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployments and infrastructure provisioning.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve production incidents.
• Automate operational tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or system administration roles.
• Strong expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS , Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and monitoring tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, suitable for a fully remote role.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary package, commensurate with experience.
• Fully remote work arrangement, providing flexibility and work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous budget for professional development, certifications, and conferences.
• Opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects with a global team.
• Modern technology stack and collaborative remote work culture.