Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | Remote, CI/CD & Kubernetes

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Health insurance

Training & certifications

Conferences & growth opportunities

Wellness programs

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote, international team. You will design, build, and scale AWS-based infrastructure, and own CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable releases.

In this Durban-based role, you will implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, manage Kubernetes containers, and collaborate with global engineers to uphold security and performance standards in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps experience with a focus on AWS.
• Hands-on with EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Scripting in Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Container tech: Docker, Kubernetes.
• CI/CD practices with Jenkins, GitLab CI or CircleCI.
• IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Networking, security, and admin knowledge.
• Experience with monitoring/logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.
• Implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Monitor performance and optimize, ensure security and compliance.
• Automate tasks to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with remote teams and support production incidents.
• Manage container platforms like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

AWS expertise

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

CI/CD knowledge

Remote work communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a fully remote, international team. You will design, build, and scale AWS-based infrastructure, and own CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable releases.

In this Durban-based role, you will implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, manage Kubernetes containers, and collaborate with global engineers to uphold security and performance standards in a remote-first environment.