Senior Cloud Engineer (Remote) - IaC, CI/CD & Kubernetes

Placements24; Richards Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health benefits

Certifications training

Flexible hours

Exposure to modern cloud architectures

Job summary

Placements24 in South Africa invites an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure from a fully remote setup. You will implement IaC, automate deployments, and drive security and performance improvements across environments.

Collaborate with development teams, maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitor systems, and optimize costs while applying best practices in networking, security, and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering focusing on AWS or Azure.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Extensive experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and monitoring.
• Scripting skills (Python or Bash).
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and management.
• Monitor cloud environments, identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize resources.
• Ensure security best practices across all cloud resources.
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS or Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Placements24 in South Africa invites an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure from a fully remote setup. You will implement IaC, automate deployments, and drive security and performance improvements across environments.

Collaborate with development teams, maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitor systems, and optimize costs while applying best practices in networking, security, and observability.