Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & IaC

Upstream; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Benefits

Job summary

Upstream is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help define deployment strategies and evolve an immutable platform. You will build tools in Python and Golang, design high-volume systems, and implement IaC across on-premise and cloud environments using VMware, AWS, and Azure.

With 5+ years in DevOps, you will manage CI/CD pipelines, monitor performance, and optimize cloud infrastructure for cost and scalability, collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting a polyglot platform stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, Systems Infrastructure, or related engineering domains.
• Strong programming experience in Python and Go, reading and writing.
• Linux system administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve artifact and container deployment strategies.
• Support immutable deployment platform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop tools in Python and Go; enable build, test, and deploy processes.
• Design on-premise and cloud infrastructure (VMware, AWS, Azure).
• Ensure cost, performance, and scalability in cloud environments.
• Implement IaC with Ansible and Terraform; automate deployments.
• Troubleshoot performance, network, and security issues; patch and harden systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and enable rapid delivery to Kubernetes and cloud targets.

Skills

Python

Golang

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud tooling

CI/CD

DevOps tooling

VMware vCenter

PostgreSQL/NoSQL

Communication

Willingness to learn

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Jenkins

GitLab

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Job description

Upstream is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help define deployment strategies and evolve an immutable platform. You will build tools in Python and Golang, design high-volume systems, and implement IaC across on-premise and cloud environments using VMware, AWS, and Azure.

With 5+ years in DevOps, you will manage CI/CD pipelines, monitor performance, and optimize cloud infrastructure for cost and scalability, collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting a polyglot platform stack.