Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote, Cloud & CI/CD Leader)

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work allowance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Home office budget

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our fully remote team supporting Richards Bay operations. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security across applications.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps with strong automation, Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting, and hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes experience. You will drive improvement in deployment processes and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or similar experience with a strong automation focus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proficiency in Python, Bash or PowerShell scripting.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong communication skills for a remote-first role supporting clients.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage automated CI/CD pipelines for deployment and provisioning.
• Maintain and scale cloud infrastructure for high availability and performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for rapid issue resolution.
• Collaborate with dev teams to optimize performance and deployment processes.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible.
• Ensure security best practices across all environments.

Skills

CI/CD automation

SRE/DevOps

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell scripting

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our fully remote team supporting Richards Bay operations. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security across applications.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps with strong automation, Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting, and hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes experience. You will drive improvement in deployment processes and IaC practices.