DevOps – Platform Engineer
MagicOrange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Durban • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAzureCloudDockerGrafanaKubernetesPythonTerraform
About the role
- Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Azure and Terraform (or Bicep).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar) for code and data services.
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and monitoring across dev, test, and production.
- Implement best practices in monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Grafana, or equivalent tools.
- Support SRE principles for uptime, performance, and incident response.
- Manage infrastructure costs effectively, aligned with MagicOrange’s FinOps principles.
- Work closely with data engineers and AI teams to support Databricks, AI Foundry, and ML model deployments.
- Contribute to infrastructure solutions that enable AI-driven automation and data pipelines.
- Implement DevSecOps best practices, ensuring secure configurations, access controls, and compliance with SOC 2 and GDPR.
- Continuously improve vulnerability scanning and dependency management.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience as a DevOps or Cloud Engineer in a production environment.
- Strong experience with Azure Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions).
- Proficiency with Python or Bash scripting for automation tasks.
- Understanding of data workflows and AI/ML model operations is a plus.
- Familiarity with Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, or similar AI platforms is advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills and a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
Benefits
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit.
- The ability to make an impact and see the rewards of your efforts.
- Ongoing training on the latest technologies to aid automation for accountants.
- Be part of a high growth industry and product.
- A challenging career in an innovative company.
- Opportunity to influence, working in an open climate, close to decision-makers at large blue-chip enterprises with the possibility to make a difference
- A competitive remuneration package, with flexible pension options.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AzureTerraformBicepCI/CD pipelinesGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsDockerKubernetesPythonBash
Soft skills
communicationcontinuous improvementinnovation