Platform Cloud Engineer (Johannesburg)

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Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable, containerised environments? We’re looking for a Platform Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices to help build, optimise, and support cloud-native platforms powering enterprise-scale applications.

If you love automation, rock-solid infrastructure, and designing platforms the right way, this role is the perfect match.

What you bring

Strong AWS experience across EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
Solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks
Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) administration
Observability/monitoring skills: X-Ray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana
Experience with CI/CD tools – AWS DevOps, Jenkins
Familiarity with cloud-native toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
Strong containerisation background
Programming experience in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
Solid Linux competency

Your responsibilities

Manage and build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
Own Kubernetes administration: ingress, networking, RBAC
Enhance observability and monitoring (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, alerting)
Use IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane
Oversee release management and deployment best practices

Skills and experience we value

AWS associate certification or extensive AWS experience
Kubernetes application developer certification or equivalent practical exposure
Strong Kubernetes admin skills
Solid hands-on experience with Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK
GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)
Monitoring experience: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Reference number: GZ60876
This is a permanent role, based in Johannesburg, offering a CTC of R1m per annum, negotiable based on experience and ability.

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