Senior Azure Kubernetes SRE & DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Recruit-It; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Home office stipend

Learning budget

Wellness program

ESOP

Job summary

Recruit-It is seeking a Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer to own an Azure-based Kubernetes platform end-to-end. You will ensure resilient infrastructure, hardened CI/CD, and strong observability for reliable, scalable workloads.

You will operate production AKS clusters, manage Terraform-based Azure infra, maintain GitHub Actions pipelines, and drive SRE practices including SLOs, dashboards, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Cloud/Kubernetes certification (Azure, CKA) advantageous.
• Proven experience operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure as Terraform code.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines with quality gates for reliable deployments.
• Own observability: dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
• Manage secrets, identity, and network security across environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot and improve reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Bash scripting

Secrets management

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Cloud/Kubernetes certification

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Helm

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Recruit-It is seeking a Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer to own an Azure-based Kubernetes platform end-to-end. You will ensure resilient infrastructure, hardened CI/CD, and strong observability for reliable, scalable workloads.

You will operate production AKS clusters, manage Terraform-based Azure infra, maintain GitHub Actions pipelines, and drive SRE practices including SLOs, dashboards, and incident response.