Platform Engineer Devops CPT

ENVIRONMENT:

Join a team of scientists engineers and computer scientists working on advanced projects. The Platform Engineer will contribute to the development integration and day-to-day operation of shared platform services that underpin scientific computing and complex software systems. This role focuses on platform construction automation observability and operational readiness as the platform transitions from construction into steady-state operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build configure and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning deployment and configuration using Ansible Terraform Bash Python and Packer.
• Manage containerisation and orchestration environments (Docker Kubernetes Helm containerd Podman).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows (GitLab CI Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD FluxCD).
• Monitor platform services and respond to incidents using Prometheus Grafana Zabbix ELK stack and alerting systems.
• Support cloud and virtualized infrastructure on AWS GCP Azure or OpenStack.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams using Agile/DevOps practices.
• Ensure operational reliability scalability and resilience of distributed software systems.
• Document technical processes and share knowledge across the team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5 years hands-on experience in platform systems or infrastructure engineering in distributed environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration tuning troubleshooting and scripting.
• Proficiency with containerisation and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes Helm Containerd Podman).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Infrastructure provisioning and automation (Ansible Terraform Packer Bash Python).
• Working knowledge of monitoring and observability practices.
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture microservices and service meshes.
• Familiarity with networking and security in cloud or containerized environments.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Desirable Requirements:

• Exposure to scientific computing control systems or data acquisition environments.
• Experience with hardware acceleration (GPU FPGA) and parallel programming (MPI).
• Performance tuning profiling and reliability engineering.
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage systems (Ceph Lustre BeeGFS).
• Integration of security practices into platform operations.

Qualifications:

• NQF Level 7 qualification in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Electronic Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• (Comp Sci) with 8 years relevant experience
• ./. Hons (Comp Sci) with 5 years relevant experience
• ./. (Comp Sci) with 3 years relevant experience

Qualifications:

• NQF Level 7 qualification in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Electronic Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• (Comp Sci) with 8 years relevant experience
• ./. Hons (Comp Sci) with 5 years relevant experience
• ./. (Comp Sci) with 3 years relevant experience

While we would really like to respond to every application should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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