Remote Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & IaC

Placements24; Richards Bay; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a dedicatedRemote Senior DevOps Engineer to join their international team. This fully remote role lets you work from anywhere in South Africa, focusing on building scalable, secure infrastructure for cutting-edge products.

You will streamline development, deployments, and operations to ensure high availability. You will automate processes, implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, manage Kubernetes and Docker, and collaborate across dev and ops.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years in a DevOps or similar role with cloud experience.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling.
• Solid Linux/Windows administration and networking basics.
• Strong communication in a remote, async team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Manage scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Develop and enforce container strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor performance and reliability, with proactive issue prevention.
• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth deployments and triage issues.
• Enforce robust security practices across infra and pipelines.
• Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations for incident response.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Python scripting

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins / GitLab CI / CircleCI

Linux systems

Security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a dedicatedRemote Senior DevOps Engineer to join their international team. This fully remote role lets you work from anywhere in South Africa, focusing on building scalable, secure infrastructure for cutting-edge products.

You will streamline development, deployments, and operations to ensure high availability. You will automate processes, implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, manage Kubernetes and Docker, and collaborate across dev and ops.