Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — Remote, CI/CD, IaC

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health insurance

Home office allowance

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a specialization in AWS to join a fully remote team. You will architect, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure, automate infrastructure and CI/CD processes, and empower development teams to deploy rapidly and securely.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS expertise, and hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles with a strong AWS focus.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Proven containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and cloud monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, builds, and deployment.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and deploy proactive improvements.
• Enforce security best practices across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployments and operations.
• Provide on-call support and troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Monitoring

Security

SRE

Python

Bash

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a specialization in AWS to join a fully remote team. You will architect, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure, automate infrastructure and CI/CD processes, and empower development teams to deploy rapidly and securely.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS expertise, and hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.