Senior DevOps Engineer

Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable, and automated platforms?

Join our team to lead the development and operation of cutting-edge Kubernetes-based systems across AWS-hosted SaaS and on-premises customer deployments. We are currently searching for a Senior DevOps Engineer.

What we’re looking for:

• Hands-on extensive experience with Kubernetes in production and AWS EKS
• Strong skills in Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps practices (ArgoCD preferred)
• Linux systems administration experience and knowledge of container orchestration
• Familiarity with cloud and on-premises environments, monitoring, alerting, and networking fundamentals
• Strong problem-solving, documentation, and mentorship abilities

Nice-to-have:

• CKA, CKAD, or similar certifications
• Experience with SRE principles, Kubernetes storage solutions, Cloudflare, Azure
• Software engineering background and customer-hosted platform experience

What you’ll do:

• Platform engineering and operations: Design, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes platforms (AWS EKS & on-prem deployments) to ensure reliability, availability, and performance
• Infrastructure automation: Build and maintain infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, drive reusable modules, and streamline provisioning and lifecycle management
• Kubernetes and GitOps Expertise: Maintain and evolve GitOps workflows (ArgoCD), support Helm-based deployments, and optimize environment consistency and rollback mechanisms

Position details:

• Reference: GZ61002
• Location: Cape Town / remote
• Type: Permanent
• Salary: R1000k negotiable (based on experience and ability)

How to apply:

Contact Garth at >b/b< or call 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 28 Jan 11:29, Closing date 29 Mar