Remote SRE - Scalable Cloud & Automation

Placements24; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Flexible hours

Health insurance

Home office budget

Remote work culture

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Remote Site Reliability Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of our cloud-based infrastructure, automating operations and guiding reliability.

This fully remote role offers flexible hours, competitive compensation with bonuses, health coverage, and a budget for home office setup. You will collaborate with developers to improve deployment pipelines and document best practices for a

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar DevOps/infrastructure role.
• Strong cloud and containerization expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Scripting with Python, Bash, or Go required.
• Solid networking, security, and system design knowledge.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent communication for remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems.
• Lead incident response and conduct root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with development teams on reliability and deployment pipelines.
• Document infrastructure and troubleshooting guides for distributed teams.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Networking

Security

System architecture

Remote collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Remote Site Reliability Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of our cloud-based infrastructure, automating operations and guiding reliability.

This fully remote role offers flexible hours, competitive compensation with bonuses, health coverage, and a budget for home office setup. You will collaborate with developers to improve deployment pipelines and document best practices for a