Senior DevOps/SRE Cloud Engineer

Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer to take ownership of their Azure-based Kubernetes environment. This is a fully remote opportunity for a South African professional with strong Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform, and SRE experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years' experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering

• 2–3+ years' experience running Kubernetes workloads in production

• 2+ years' experience with Azure

• Strong production experience with Azure AKS

• Strong Kubernetes experience, including Helm, operators, node pools, troubleshooting, upgrades, and capacity planning

• Strong Terraform experience with modular Infrastructure as Code

• Experience with Docker and containerisation

• Strong GitHub Actions and CI/CD experience

• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana

• Strong Linux and Bash scripting skills

• Experience with Azure Key Vault, Entra ID, managed identities, and Azure networking

• Strong understanding of secrets management and cloud security

• Ability to work independently in a remote environment

Advantageous

• Experience with Apache Spark, Trino, Hive Metastore, or Delta Lake

• Python experience

• SQL Server and PostgreSQL administration

• OpenTelemetry and OpenLineage

• Experience with multi-tenant or regulated-data environments

• Azure or CKA certification

Key Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production Kubernetes clusters and Azure infrastructure

• Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

• Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines

• Own monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs

• Manage secrets, identity, networking, and security across environments

• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability

• Partner with engineering teams to optimise performance and scalability

• Lead incident response and contribute to capacity planning

If you would like to apply for this position, please send transcripts with applications.

Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your updated CV attached to ***email_hidden***, alternatively contact 031 350 4018 or visit our website, www.tumaini.co. Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.