DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer

Our client is seeking a senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer to take ownership of an Azure-based Kubernetes environment, with a focus on resilient infrastructure, secure CI/CD, observability and reliable platform operations. The role is suited to an experienced engineer who can independently manage production environments and partner closely with development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
• Maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with appropriate quality gates.
• Own observability through dashboards, alerting, SLOs and incident response.
• Manage secrets, identity and network security across environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot and improve system reliability.
• Design and maintain modular Infrastructure as Code for clusters, identity, storage and secrets.
• Support Kubernetes deployments, upgrades, capacity planning and operational troubleshooting.
• Maintain secure and reliable containerised environments.
• Develop and maintain operational Bash scripts as tested, maintainable code.
• Apply effective secrets-management practices and prevent sensitive credentials from entering repositories or container images.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.
• 2–3 years’ experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production.
• 2+ years’ production Azure experience.
• Strong Azure experience with AKS, ADLS Gen2, Azure Key Vault, Entra ID, workload/managed identities, VNets, private endpoints, firewall rules and Azure Service Bus or an equivalent message broker.
• Strong production Kubernetes experience, including Helm, environment overlays, Kubernetes operators, node-pool design, resource requests/limits, capacity sizing, troubleshooting and upgrades.
• Strong Terraform experience, including modular IaC and state management across environments.
• Strong Docker experience, including multi-architecture image builds, Compose, health checks and memory-limit tuning.
• Hands-on GitHub Actions experience.
• Strong Prometheus and Grafana experience, including dashboards and alert rules.
• Understanding of SLOs, incident response and capacity planning.
• Strong Bash and Linux skills.
• Strong understanding of secrets management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Cloud or Kubernetes certification such as Azure certification or CKA would be advantageous.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently.

Advantageous Experience

• Apache Spark on Kubernetes, Spark Operator and JupyterHub.
• Hive Metastore, Trino, Apache Ranger, Delta Lake and MinIO.
• OpenTelemetry and OpenLineage/Marquez.
• Python and pytest-based infrastructure testing.
• SQL Server and PostgreSQL administration.
• Multi-tenant or regulated-data environments, including security and supply-chain controls.

Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your CV to Sign in to view email. You can also contact us on 031 350 4019 or alternatively you can visit our website https://stand-outstaffing.co.za

Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 4 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.