Platform Cloud Engineer Johannesburg R1m PA

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 15 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Introduction

Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable containerised environments Were 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

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 & 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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IntroductionAre you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable containerised environments Were 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 appl...