Senior DevOps & SRE: Cloud Platform Reliability Architect

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

Job summary

Indsafri is seeking a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and automated cloud platforms. You will drive best practices across delivery teams, ensuring reliable deployments and robust platform resilience.

The role emphasizes IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and cross-functional leadership to improve availability, performance, and customer experience. Strong Kubernetes or OpenShift experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production operations.
• Proven track record managing mission-critical production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable platforms.
• Develop IaC solutions and reusable deployment templates.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security checks.
• Lead incident response, problem management, and root cause analysis.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Drive reliability, performance, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Mentor DevOps, platform, cloud, and SRE engineers.

Skills

Cloud experience

CI/CD

Monitoring & observability

Security & compliance

Leadership & mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems

Tools

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

Nexus

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

OpenShift

Job description

Indsafri is seeking a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and automated cloud platforms. You will drive best practices across delivery teams, ensuring reliable deployments and robust platform resilience.

The role emphasizes IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and cross-functional leadership to improve availability, performance, and customer experience. Strong Kubernetes or OpenShift experience is a plus.