DevOps Engineer

Cape Town, South Africa · On-site

About this role

What You'll Do

Own the platform: Design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that runs our autonomous testing agents, from commit to production

Make shipping effortless: Build and harden CI/CD pipelines so engineers deploy daily with confidence, not anxiety

Infrastructure as code: Define everything in Terraform/Pulumi, reproducible, reviewable, and disposable

Scale the agents: Run containerised, orchestrated workloads on Kubernetes that spin up and tear down thousands of simulated user sessions on demand

Own reliability: Design observability, alerting, and incident response so we catch failures before customers do

Tame cost and performance: Keep the cloud bill sane while the workload grows 10x


What We're Looking For

Relentless drive: You execute fast, adapt faster

Startup scar tissue: You've kept production alive with no safety net

Cloud fluency: AWS/GCP, containers, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, you've built it, not just configured it

Automation reflex: If you've done it twice by hand, you've already scripted the third time

Reliability obsession: You care more about uptime and recovery than dashboards that look pretty

Security-aware by default: Secrets, least privilege, and supply-chain hygiene are habits, not afterthoughts


Ideal Background

There's no perfect pedigree. We hire for mindset, not credentials. That said, you might have:

Built and scaled infra for a high-velocity product from 0 to 1

Owned CI/CD and platform tooling for a fast-shipping engineering team

Run production workloads on Kubernetes under real load

Thrived in chaos with high ownership


Why This Matters

Software is accelerating. The infrastructure under it has to keep up. As AI ships more code faster, the platform that tests, deploys, and trusts that code becomes the bottleneck, or the unlock.

Five years from now, every high-velocity team will run on infrastructure like the one you'll build here. Join now, and help make that future real, before someone else does.

Company at a glance

As AI commoditises code generation, the bottleneck moves from writing software to trusting it. Verification is the layer that determines whether AI-generated code ships to production or stalls in review.

Code-level tests rot every time the implementation changes.

Product-level verification does not care how the code was written, only whether the product still does what users came to do.

Duku continuously simulates your users so you can trust every release, before it ships.

Founded2025
Team Size11-50 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryTechnology, Information and Internet
Location
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Websiteduku.ai
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