Senior DevOps SRE Cloud Engineer

• Infrastructure as Code: Provision and operate production Kubernetes (AKS) and Azure infrastructure using modular Terraform.

• CI/CD Automation: Maintain GitHub Actions pipelines featuring quality gates security checks and automated deployments.

• Observability and SRE: Own monitoring alerting SLOs capacity planning and incident response across environments.

• Security and Access: Manage platform secrets network controls (VNets private endpoints) and Entra ID identity governance.

• Developer Enablement: Partner with engineering teams to resolve operational bottlenecks and drive reliability standards.

• Experience: 5 years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering (including 23 years operating K8s in production and 2 years on Azure).

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Certifications: CKA CKAD or Azure Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer certifications are advantageous.

• Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving ability clear technical communication and the capacity to operate autonomously within a hybrid/remote team.

• Azure Platform: Production experience with AKS ADLS Gen2 Key Vault Entra ID (Workload/Managed Identities) VNets/Private Endpoints and Service Bus (or equivalent broker).

• Production Kubernetes: Advanced operational depth in Helm chart authoring operator deployment node-pool sizing pod troubleshooting and cluster upgrades.

• Terraform: Proven ability to author modular IaC manage state safely and maintain strict plan/apply disciplines.

• Containerization and CI/CD: Hands-on Docker (multi-arch builds optimization) and GitHub Actions pipeline development with required status checks.

• Observability: Practical experience configuring Prometheus Grafana structured logging and SLO-based alerting.

• Linux and Automation: Strong Bash scripting with clean code-maintained operational tooling.

• Preferred Experience

  • Data Platforms: Apache Spark on K8s (Spark Operator/Connect) JupyterHub Delta Lake Trino Hive Metastore or Apache Ranger.

  • Advanced Telemetry: OpenTelemetry (SDKs/Collector topology) and OpenLineage/Marquez integration.

  • Languages and Databases: Intermediate Python (infrastructure testing/pytest) and basic DBA management for SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

  • Compliance and Isolation: Multi-tenant architecture design dependency auditing image provenance and POPIA/GDPR/ISO 27001 controls.

Benefits:

Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)

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