Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with Cloud Automation to join a distributed, 100% remote team across South Africa. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and IaC-based tooling, to accelerate development velocity and reliability.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation, scripting in Python or Bash, and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes).

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE with cloud focus.
• Proven cloud platform expertise and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infra on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Implement IaC using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Automate operational tasks to boost efficiency.
• Ensure security, performance, and availability of cloud envs.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate with dev and ops to troubleshoot issues.
• Participate in architecture discussions and tech choices.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote best practices.
• Stay current with emerging DevOps tools and methodologies.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Container technologies

Networking & security

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Job description

Placements24 seeks a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with Cloud Automation to join a distributed, 100% remote team across South Africa. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and IaC-based tooling, to accelerate development velocity and reliability.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation, scripting in Python or Bash, and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes).