Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer

A company that develops, owns, and operates utility-scale power generation and energy storage plants across the African continent is seeking a Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer who will own the company's Azure-based Kubernetes platform end-to-end - remote or hybrid based on location .

Responsibilities:

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

• Security & 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering (including 2-3 years operating K8s in production and 2+ years on Azure).

• Education: Bachelor's 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 & 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 & 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 & Databases: Intermediate Python (infrastructure testing/pytest) and basic DBA management for SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

• Compliance & 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)