Senior devops / sre cloud engineer at Hire Resolve – Cape Town | Jobyssey

A company that develops, owns, and operates utility-scale power generation and energy storage plants across the African continent is seeking a Senior Dev Ops / 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 Git Hub 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 Dev Ops/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 / Dev Ops 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 Ia C, manage state safely, and maintain strict plan/apply disciplines.

Containerization & CI/CD: Hands-on Docker (multi-arch builds, optimization) and Git Hub 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), Jupyter Hub, Delta Lake, Trino, Hive Metastore, or Apache Ranger.

Advanced Telemetry: Open Telemetry (SDKs/Collector topology) and Open Lineage/Marquez integration.

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

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) #J-18808-Ljbffr

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