Remote Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Infra & CI/CD

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Remote work allowance and home office

Unlimited PTO and growth opportunities

Distributed team projects

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to join their fully remote team. You will build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and ensure high availability across AWS, Azure, or GCP, while driving automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, container orchestration with Kubernetes, monitoring and security best practices, and close collaboration with development and QA teams to accelerate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or similar infra role.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP and core services.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or PowerShell; config management with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Hands-on containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Understanding of networking, security, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, deployments.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Monitor performance, identify issues, ensure high availability and stability.
• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with development and QA to ensure seamless deployment workflows.
• Manage Kubernetes or Docker Swarm clusters.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Scripting languages

CI/CD expertise

Container orchestration

Collaboration/communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to join their fully remote team. You will build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and ensure high availability across AWS, Azure, or GCP, while driving automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, container orchestration with Kubernetes, monitoring and security best practices, and close collaboration with development and QA teams to accelerate