DevOps Engineer

West IT is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

The position:

West IT is hiring a DevOps Engineer to work remotely from South Africa. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. The operations team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. The company is based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The team is distributed across several countries. We hire in South Africa through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Main duties:

• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments

About you:

• 3+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch

Benefits:

Compensation: R86,000-R100,000 a month

• Home office setup budget
• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual salary review

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at West IT.