Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

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

Job summary

Indsafri is seeking a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer to design, automate and operate highly available cloud platforms supporting mission-critical applications. The role centers on Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, SRE, automation and observability.

You will design and manage scalable Azure cloud and Kubernetes platforms, build CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, drive SRE practices, and lead a team to improve availability and security in production environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years overall experience in DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on DevOps experience.
• 3+ years SRE / production operations experience.
• Terraform / Bicep / ARM Templates / Ansible.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps.
• Python / PowerShell / Bash.
• Strong experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable Azure cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment/rollback processes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation.
• Drive SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, incident management and RCA.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Improve platform availability, reliability, performance and scalability.
• Implement DevSecOps, security and compliance practices.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery and production operations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering teams.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

SRE

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

OpenShift

OpenTelemetry

AWS

GCP

Job description

Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, automate and operate highly available, secure and scalable cloud platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

The role will focus on Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, SRE, automation and observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable Azure cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment/rollback processes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation.
• Drive SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, incident management and RCA.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Improve platform availability, reliability, performance and scalability.
• Implement DevSecOps, security and compliance practices.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery and production operations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering teams.

Must-Have Skills

• 8+ years overall experience in DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on DevOps experience.
• 3+ years SRE / production operations experience.
• Terraform / Bicep / ARM Templates / Ansible
• CI/CD & DevSecOps
• Python / PowerShell / Bash
• Strong experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

Good to Have

• OpenShift
• AWS / GCP
• OpenTelemetry
• Experience with enterprise or regulated environments.