31 - Senior DevOps Engineer

31 - Senior DevOps Engineer Run Kubernetes at 24/7 scale across on-prem and cloud on a 5-month engagement — hands-on platform work with a 15-person delivery team. Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a 15-person team responsible for delivering and operating applications in a 24/7 environment. This is a five-month engagement running from 10 August to 31 December 2026, fully remote. You'll be hands-on with Kubernetes-based applications across both on-premises and public cloud infrastructure, and you'll also help coordinate subcontractors contributing to the platform. This is not a junior platform role. We're looking for someone who has already carried production responsibility in a 24/7 setting and can step in and be useful in week one. Key Responsibilities Deliver and operate applications in a 24/7 production environment Implement, deploy and maintain Kubernetes-based applications Work across both on-premises and public cloud (AWS) environments Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform Manage GitOps-based deployments with Argo CD and Helm Maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI Support data platform components and orchestration workloads Handle networking, DNS, encryption and certificate management Coordinate and manage subcontractors working on the platform Required Skills and Experience Senior-level, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production Strong AWS experience alongside on-premises infrastructure Terraform for infrastructure as code Argo CD and Helm for GitOps deployment workflows GitLab CI and Git Python for automation and tooling PostgreSQL Solid networking, DNS, encryption and certificate management fundamentals Experience operating in a 24/7 environment with real uptime expectations Clear communication in English and comfort working with external subcontractors Nice to Have Data platform experience: Spark, Hadoop Data orchestration tooling, particularly Dagster Jupyter Notebooks BI tooling exposure: Tableau, Power BI Department Outstaffing Remote status Fully Remote About Tunga Tunga is the go-to platform for hiring African software developers. Companies from all over the world use Tunga to hire African software developers to execute software projects, as full-time or part-time members of distributed software teams. Tunga’s mission is to create tech jobs for African youths and has a community of over 3000 software developers. We were founded in 2015 and have served over 250 clients from all over the world. Tunga’s clients have a diverse profile: SMEs, startups, corporates, and NGOs all belong to our client base.