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Senior Platform Engineer (PTA)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 8 August 2026 (30 days ago)

Application Deadline: 5 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

A senior-level Platform Engineering opportunity for an experienced engineer with a strong track record of building scalable production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities for engineering teams. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise across AWS Kubernetes GitOps Infrastructure as Code automation and internal developer platforms with a strong focus on building reliable scalable and cloud native solutions.

Expert Knowledge

AWS cloud architecture and services with strong understanding of AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.
Building platform APIs automation system-level tooling and/or internal developer platforms.
Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices including Terraform CDK Pulumi and Crossplane.
Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes; CKA certification preferable. Cloud-native systems distributed systems and service architectures including associated design trade-offs.
Building and operating scalable secure and highly available platforms within AWS environments.

Requirements

Requirements

5 years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity building self-service platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
2 - 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java JavaScript Golang or Python.
6 years of experience working with Public Cloud with strong hands-on AWS experience.
6 years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux and Helm/Kustomize.
Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Loki and X-Ray.
Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
Proven experience building complex production-grade platforms and making these available for self-service consumption by engineering teams.
Hands-on experience with Crossplane ArgoCD and Backstage is non negotiable.
Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.

Required Skills:

Requirements 5 years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity building self-service platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams. 2 - 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java JavaScript Golang or Python. 6 years of experience working with Public Cloud with strong hands-on AWS experience. 6 years of experience with containerisation and container platforms. Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux and Helm/Kustomize. Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Loki and X-Ray. Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD. Proven experience building complex production-grade platforms and making these available for self-service consumption by engineering teams. Hands-on experience with Crossplane ArgoCD and Backstage is non negotiable. Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.

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