Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes) | MSP Staffing | Remote / Cape Town Recruiting Company: MSP Staffing Job Location: Remote (Hybrid option available in Cape Town, South Africa) Job Type: Full-Time Salary: ~R95,000 per month Application Method: Send CV to with subject line: “Senior DevOps Engineer” Position Summary MSP Staffing is urgently seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to take full ownership of Kubernetes platforms across both AWS and on‑premise environments. This role is central to ensuring platform reliability, automation, and operational excellence for mission‑critical workloads. The ideal candidate brings deep, hands‑on Kubernetes operations experience and thrives in environments where stability, scalability, and automation are top priorities. Detailed Job Description As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, running, and improving Kubernetes-based platform services across hybrid cloud ecosystems. You will implement advanced automation, manage infrastructure as code, and support production‑grade, stateful workloads at scale. This includes working with EKS clusters, on‑prem Kubernetes, GitOps pipelines, Terraform modules, and high‑availability networking components. You’ll collaborate with SRE, security, development, and platform engineering teams to uphold SLAs, manage incidents, optimize observability, and ensure resilient infrastructure operations. Key Responsibilities Own and operate Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS and on‑prem environments Implement and maintain GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred) Design and manage infrastructure using advanced Terraform practices Support stateful workloads (databases, message queues, storage drivers) on K8s Build and improve automation using Ansible and additional toolchains Manage Linux‑based systems supporting Kubernetes clusters Ensure platform availability, performance, and operational reliability Handle incident response, root‑cause analysis, and production troubleshooting Implement and maintain observability tools covering logs, metrics, and traces Ensure secure networking, ingress, DNS, TLS, and load‑balancing configurations Collaborate with development and SRE teams to improve deployment pipelines Required Qualifications & Skills Extensive hands‑on experience managing Kubernetes in production environments Proven AWS EKS operational expertise Advanced Terraform (modular IaC, automation, pipelines) GitOps experience (ArgoCD strongly preferred) Strong Linux administration background Hands‑on experience supporting stateful workloads on Kubernetes Ansible experience (automation, configuration management) Deep operational experience (monitoring, alerts, incident response, SLAs) Expertise with hybrid cloud + on‑prem deployments Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, ingress, SSL/TLS, load balancing Nice‑to‑Have Skills Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and secrets management (Vault, KMS, Sealed Secrets) CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) Familiarity with distributed systems and high‑availability architecture Experience with storage backends (Ceph, EBS, EFS, Longhorn, Portworx) Recruitment Pro Tip Showcase real examples of Kubernetes platforms you’ve owned end‑to‑end—cluster deployments, IaC automation, major incident resolution, or scaling stateful workloads. Demonstrating complete lifecycle ownership is the strongest signal of senior DevOps capability for this role. #J-18808-Ljbffr