Devops engineer
Rethinkit City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Direct message the job poster from Rethinkit
We are looking for a
Senior Dev Ops Engineer
to help us design, implement, and operate
enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting
across our production platforms.
You will be a key contributor in managing a
production RKE2 Kubernetes cluster , operated via
Rancher , and improving our
CI/CD pipelines
using
Git Lab.
The role supports
high-performance, highly secure systems
for
one of the largest stock brokers in the United States.
Note:
Candidates must be able to work, when required,
US Eastern Time hours (14:00 - 00:00 SAST)
as this will be required for production deployments, troubleshooting and collaboration with engineering teams.
This is a fully
remote role , but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team lunches and get togethers. It is a hands‑on role working closely with backend, web, and mobile engineering teams as well as the platform team in the US.
Responsibilities Observability & Reliability
Design and implement
enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting
Build and maintain centralised log aggregation pipelines
Define alerting strategies, SLOs, and operational dashboards
Ensure system health, performance, and reliability in production
Set up, configure, and manage
production Kubernetes clusters (RKE2)
Deploy and manage workloads using
Helm
Troubleshoot cluster, networking, and workload-level issues
Apply security and hardening best practices for production systems
CI/CD & Automation
Build, migrate, and maintain
Git Lab CI/CD pipelines
Migrate existing services into standardised pipelines
Support and maintain pipelines for new services
Improve developer experience through automation and reusable templates
Security & Networking
Implement and maintain
security best practices
Manage
SSL certificates
Secure Kubernetes workloads, networks, and CI/CD pipelines
Work with complex, high-security networking environments
Containers & Software Collaboration
Set up and maintain
Docker containers and registries
Work closely with backend teams and assist where required
C++ experience
is a bonus
Required Experience
Senior-level experience in
Dev Ops / Platform Engineering
Experience with
RKE2
and
Rancher
Strong experience with
Helm
Hands‑on experience with
Git Lab CI/CD
Experience implementing:
Metrics and monitoring
Alerting strategies
Strong networking and security fundamentals
Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems
Nice to Have
Observability tools such as:
Grafana
Loki, ELK, or Open Search
Open Telemetry
Experience with
Vector
for log aggregation
AWS/GCP experience
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Git Ops workflows Experience in financial or regulated environments
What We Offer
Fully remote role,
but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team get togethers.
Work on
large-scale, high-performance systems
Opportunity to contribute to platforms used by
one of the largest US stock brokers
Collaborative engineering environment
Competitive compensation
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Information Technology
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Direct message the job poster from Rethinkit
We are looking for a
Senior Dev Ops Engineer
to help us design, implement, and operate
enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting
across our production platforms.
You will be a key contributor in managing a
production RKE2 Kubernetes cluster , operated via
Rancher , and improving our
CI/CD pipelines
using
Git Lab.
The role supports
high-performance, highly secure systems
for
one of the largest stock brokers in the United States.
Note:
Candidates must be able to work, when required,
US Eastern Time hours (14:00 - 00:00 SAST)
as this will be required for production deployments, troubleshooting and collaboration with engineering teams.
This is a fully
remote role , but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team lunches and get togethers. It is a hands‑on role working closely with backend, web, and mobile engineering teams as well as the platform team in the US.
Responsibilities Observability & Reliability
Design and implement
enterprise-grade logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting
Build and maintain centralised log aggregation pipelines
Define alerting strategies, SLOs, and operational dashboards
Ensure system health, performance, and reliability in production
Set up, configure, and manage
production Kubernetes clusters (RKE2)
Deploy and manage workloads using
Helm
Troubleshoot cluster, networking, and workload-level issues
Apply security and hardening best practices for production systems
CI/CD & Automation
Build, migrate, and maintain
Git Lab CI/CD pipelines
Migrate existing services into standardised pipelines
Support and maintain pipelines for new services
Improve developer experience through automation and reusable templates
Security & Networking
Implement and maintain
security best practices
Manage
SSL certificates
Secure Kubernetes workloads, networks, and CI/CD pipelines
Work with complex, high-security networking environments
Containers & Software Collaboration
Set up and maintain
Docker containers and registries
Work closely with backend teams and assist where required
C++ experience
is a bonus
Required Experience
Senior-level experience in
Dev Ops / Platform Engineering
Experience with
RKE2
and
Rancher
Strong experience with
Helm
Hands‑on experience with
Git Lab CI/CD
Experience implementing:
Metrics and monitoring
Alerting strategies
Strong networking and security fundamentals
Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems
Nice to Have
Observability tools such as:
Grafana
Loki, ELK, or Open Search
Open Telemetry
Experience with
Vector
for log aggregation
AWS/GCP experience
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Git Ops workflows Experience in financial or regulated environments
What We Offer
Fully remote role,
but candidates must reside in the greater Cape Town area for team get togethers.
Work on
large-scale, high-performance systems
Opportunity to contribute to platforms used by
one of the largest US stock brokers
Collaborative engineering environment
Competitive compensation
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Information Technology
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Rethinkit by 2x