Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer
Premium Ad IT/Computer - Other IT/Computer Cape Town FULL TIME Job Summary 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…
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