Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote Cloud & CI/CD Lead

Placements24; Rustenburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Competitive salary

Professional development

Global distributed team

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for a fully remote role. You will design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP, manage CI/CD pipelines, and implement IaC using Terraform and Ansible.

You will optimize deployments, ensure security, and collaborate with developers and QA teams in a distributed environment. The ideal candidate has strong scripting skills (Python/Bash/Go), hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience, and a passion for automation

Qualifications

• Must have strong hands-on experience with cloud environments.
• Expertise with AWS/Azure/GCP services such as EC2/S3/RDS/Lambda or equivalent.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go).
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Implement and manage IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and/or CloudFormation.
• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize deployments.
• Ensure cloud security and compliance.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues with development and QA teams.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Go scripting

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitLab CircleCI)

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

ELK stack

Networking security

Problem solving

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for a fully remote role. You will design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP, manage CI/CD pipelines, and implement IaC using Terraform and Ansible.

You will optimize deployments, ensure security, and collaborate with developers and QA teams in a distributed environment. The ideal candidate has strong scripting skills (Python/Bash/Go), hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience, and a passion for automation