Senior Kubernetes DevOps Engineer - Hybrid

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health benefits

Performance bonus

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid working model

Modern Pretoria office facilities

Paid time off

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with Kubernetes expertise to join our client in Pretoria. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and container orchestration to ensure the reliability and scalability of cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

This hybrid position offers collaboration with colleagues in the Pretoria office while providing remote work flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related role.
• Proven Kubernetes cluster experience (EKS/AKS/GKE or self-managed).
• Strong containerization knowledge (Docker).
• Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and their services.
• Solid networking, security, and monitoring understanding (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable Kubernetes environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Implement and manage IaC using Terraform or Ansible.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems.
• Ensure security and compliance of cloud infrastructure and apps.
• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to resolve production issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations for incident response.
• Stay updated with DevOps tooling and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for cloud deployment strategies.

Skills

problem-solving

communication

collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with Kubernetes expertise to join our client in Pretoria. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and container orchestration to ensure the reliability and scalability of cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

This hybrid position offers collaboration with colleagues in the Pretoria office while providing remote work flexibility.