Hybrid DevOps – Platform Engineer

at MagicOrange

• Job title: DevOps – Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Durban, South Africa

About the role

• DevOps Engineer focusing on Azure and Databricks cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Key in automating and securing AI-driven solutions in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.