Platform Engineer Hybrid (Cape Town OR Gauteng) Permanent An international software firm that solves real-world problems with innovative solutions and modern technology stacks seeks an experienced Platform / Cloud Engineer to join their software development teams. The companys experience spans the various industries including education, financial services, gaming, government, insurance and telecoms sectors. The company maintains a relaxed, but professional work environment, which is reflected in its flat management structure. Being a part of this company like this means working on dynamic project teams, while pursuing your own career growth through their well-established Continuous Learning Programme. The Role We are looking for a Platform Engineer or Cloud Engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS. Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/or concepts: AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well-Architected Frameworks Observability and Monitoring (XRay, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana) Kubernetes (EKS) experience DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins) Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize) Containerisation Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript) Linux experience Distributed systems and architectures. Key Responsibilities: CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, Networking, RBAC) Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane) Release management and oversite SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring. Requirements: AWS Associate Level Certification or substantial years of experience Preferred: Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD/ Flux or Helm/ Kustomize Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/or internal developer platforms.
