Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & CI/CD Expert

Placements24; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Retirement planning support

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Centurion-based team. You will design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build and maintain IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP for performance and cost efficiency.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, scripting skills (Python/Bash), and strong collaboration with development teams to improve reliability, security, and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform or Ansible.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP for scalability and cost-efficiency.
• Enforce security best practices across infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements.
• Automate operational tasks to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with software engineers to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.

Skills

CI/CD experience

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Centurion-based team. You will design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build and maintain IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP for performance and cost efficiency.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, scripting skills (Python/Bash), and strong collaboration with development teams to improve reliability, security, and automation.