AWS Platform Engineer (Development ExperienceBackground)

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly capable Platform / Cloud Engineer to join a fast-paced engineering environment focused on building scaling and optimizing cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in modern AWS ecosystems has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads and is passionate about automation reliability and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing deploying and supporting resilient secure and observable systems that empower development teams to deliver at scale.

Requirements

Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts:

AWS (EKS VPC S3 RDS IAM Fargate Lambda CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
Observability and Monitoring (Xray CloudWatch Open Tracing Grafana)
Kubernetes (EKS) experience
DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools Jenkins)
Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm Kustomize)
Containerisation
Programming languages (Python Go Java JavaScript)
Linux experience
Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities include:

CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions Azure DevOps)
Kubernetes Administration (Ingress networking RBAC)
Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO SLI SLA) and alerting
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform CloudFormation Crossplane)
Release management and oversite
SRE practises such as incident response automation reliability and monitoring

Skills and Experience

Requirements

AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or CDKS
Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
Experience monitoring with Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch
Building of platform APIs automation tooling and/ or internal developer platforms

Required Skills:

Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts: AWS (EKS VPC S3 RDS IAM Fargate Lambda CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks Observability and Monitoring (Xray CloudWatch Open Tracing Grafana) Kubernetes (EKS) experience DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools Jenkins) Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm Kustomize) Containerisation Programming languages (Python Go Java JavaScript) Linux experience Distributed systems and architectures Responsibilities include: CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions Azure DevOps) Kubernetes Administration (Ingress networking RBAC) Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO SLI SLA) and alerting Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform CloudFormation Crossplane) Release management and oversite SRE practises such as incident response automation reliability and monitoring Skills and Experience Requirements AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or CDKS Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize Experience monitoring with Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Building of platform APIs automation tooling and/ or internal developer platforms

Requirements

Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts:

AWS (EKS VPC S3 RDS IAM Fargate Lambda CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
Observability and Monitoring (Xray CloudWatch Open Tracing Grafana)
Kubernetes (EKS) experience
DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools Jenkins)
Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm Kustomize)
Containerisation
Programming languages (Python Go Java JavaScript)
Linux experience
Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities include:

CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions Azure DevOps)
Kubernetes Administration (Ingress networking RBAC)
Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO SLI SLA) and alerting
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform CloudFormation Crossplane)
Release management and oversite
SRE practises such as incident response automation reliability and monitoring

Skills and Experience

Requirements

AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or CDKS
Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
Experience monitoring with Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch
Building of platform APIs automation tooling and/ or internal developer platforms