Senior Platform Engineer
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Lets Write Africas Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for designing building and operating the foundational platform services that underpin the banks digital infrastructure. This role focuses on driving automation reliability security and operational efficiency across the banks cloudnative estate. Working at the intersection of DevOps cloud engineering and infrastructure automation the successful candidate will help accelerate delivery while ensuring high standards of performance compliance and resilience.KEY RESULT AREAS
Platform Architecture & Engineering:
Design and implement robust scalable platform services to support banking workloads across development testing and production environments.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Champion automation of infrastructure provisioning configuration and change management using tools like Terraform CloudFormation.
DevOps & CI/CD Enablement:
Build and maintain secure and scalable CI/CD pipelines to support agile delivery automated testing and seamless deployments across environments.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration:
Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters ensuring workload scalability service reliability and secure containerized operations.
Observability & Incident Management:
Instrument platform components with monitoring logging and tracing capabilities; integrate with tools such as Datadog Prometheus and PagerDuty for proactive alerting and automated remediation.
Security & Governance:
Implement security controls secrets management and audit mechanisms across the platform supporting compliance with financial regulations and internal governance standards.
FinOps & Cost Optimization:
Monitor infrastructure usage allocate cloud spend efficiently and collaborate on FinOps strategies to manage costperformance tradeoffs.
Operational Resilience:
Contribute to disaster recovery planning automated failover and resilience testing for critical banking services.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration:
Share best practices mentor junior engineers and contribute to reusable patterns platform standards and technical documentation.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Education & Certifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent work experience)
Professional certifications in AWS/GCP/Azure Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) and/or Terraform are advantageous
Experience:
6 years in platform engineering DevOps or SRE roles within cloudnative environments.
Handson experience building and automating infrastructure on AWS or other public cloud providers.
Proven track record in CI/CD implementation using GitLab Jenkins ArgoCD or similar tooling.
Deep understanding of containerization technologies and Kubernetes ecosystem.
Experience supporting observability and incident response frameworks in production environments.
Exposure to regulated industries (e.g. banking fintech insurance) is preferred.
Technical Skills:
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi)
CI/CD automation (GitLab CI Jenkins ArgoCD Flux)
Kubernetes Helm service mesh (Istio Linkerd)
Programming/scripting (Python Go Bash)
Monitoring/logging (Datadog ELK Prometheus Loki)
Security automation policyascode and compliance tooling
LOCATION : Cape Town or Johannesburg
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit.
Skills
Action Planning Application Development Business Process Design Computer Literacy Data Management Data Modeling Evaluating Information Identifying Customer Needs Information Technology (IT) Support Market Analysis Oral Communications Product Development Technical Support Technical Troubleshooting Test Case Management User Requirements Documentation Web DevelopmentCompetencies
Business InsightCollaboratesCourageCultivates InnovationDecision QualityDrives ResultsEnsures AccountabilityManages ComplexityEducation
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCoSc)Closing Date
23 April 2025 23:59The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
The Old Mutual Story!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
