Senior DevOps & SRE — Azure Kubernetes Platform

WatersEdge Solutions; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Wellness support

Learning opportunities

Employee share ownership opportunities

Job summary

WatersEdge Solutions is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE Cloud Engineer to own the production Azure-based Kubernetes platform. You will build, operate and secure resilient cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines and establish observability to run workloads reliably at scale.

You’ll work across Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions, owning from deployment to incident response while collaborating with engineering teams in a hybrid/remote setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE or platform engineering experience.
• 2–3+ years operating Kubernetes workloads in production.
• 2+ years hands-on Azure experience.
• Strong production experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Hands-on with ADLS Gen2, Azure Key Vault and Entra ID.
• Understanding of Azure networking, VNets and firewalls.
• Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Proficient in Bash scripting and Linux administration.
• Observability with Prometheus and Grafana; incident response and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production Kubernetes clusters and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Manage modular Terraform code across environments.
• Own deployments, configuration, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Design Helm charts and environment-specific deployment configurations.
• Maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Manage container image builds and health checks.
• Maintain platform observability with dashboards and alerts.
• Define SLOs and alerting strategies; participate in incident response.
• Capacity planning based on production workloads.
• Manage cloud secrets and network security across environments.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes production

Azure

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Bash scripting

Linux administration

Secrets management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Azure Key Vault

Azure AD / Entra ID

Helm

Terraform State Management

Job description

WatersEdge Solutions is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE Cloud Engineer to own the production Azure-based Kubernetes platform. You will build, operate and secure resilient cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines and establish observability to run workloads reliably at scale.

You’ll work across Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions, owning from deployment to incident response while collaborating with engineering teams in a hybrid/remote setup.