Platform Engineer
Permanent
Johannesburg, Cape Town
Posted 2 weeks ago
Seniority level
Intermediate/Senior
Experience
5 Years
Remuneration
R65 000 to R90 000
Remuneration type
Salary
Remuneration frequency
Monthly
Benefits
Hybrid Working Model | Flexibility | Facilitate Continuous Learning
The Company
An international software firm that specializes in solving real-world problems with innovative solutions and modern technology stacks. The company's experience spans various industries, including education, financial services, gaming, insurance, telecoms, and the public sector. The company maintains a strong track record by leveraging its vast business domain knowledge and world-class skills to successfully deliver digital solutions for clients.
The Role
The company is looking for a platform engineer with proven experience in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools, and building and supporting apps running on AWS.
Experience
- 3+ years of experience in a platform engineering capacity.
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java/JavaScript/Golang/Python.
- 4+ years of experience in the public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- 4+ years of experience with containerization and container platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices and using tools such as ArgoCD/Flux and Helm/Kustomize.
- Experience with the implementation of monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as Loki, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Xray.
- Familiar with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins, GitHub actions, etc).
- Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform/CDK/Pulumi/Crossplane) and practices.
- Building of platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and internal developer platforms.