Platform Engineer (DevOps, AWS & Azure) (Copy)
First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026.
Do you enjoy building the cloud platforms that other engineers depend on? INUKA is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer (a DevOps and cloud engineer) to own its cloud hosting platforms, mainly on AWS with Azure alongside, from hybrid networking and automated pipelines to observability, database performance and cost.
About INUKA
INUKA is a proudly South African, Member-based direct-selling business that develops and supplies fragrances, cosmetics and personal-care products. The business is growing at around 50% a year, and its Member App, Odoo ERP and partner-built services run on cloud platforms that must stay fast and available through campaigns, promotions and month-end peaks. You will join the TECH department's Applications and Solution Delivery team, the cloud engineering and DevOps capability behind it.
About the job
Reporting to the Applications Manager, you will build, automate and operate INUKA's cloud platforms and delivery pipelines so that internal and partner development teams can release reliably, securely and quickly. The role suits a cloud engineer who has grown into DevOps, ideally from a networking or development background, and who is as comfortable tuning a PostgreSQL database and a VPN tunnel as writing a pipeline.
Duties & Responsibilities1. Platform reliability and scalability
- Design, build and operate highly available, elastic platforms on AWS and Azure that absorb peaks in demand, with load testing before major releases
- Act as third-line resolver for platform incidents, find root causes and keep disaster recovery and backups tested against agreed recovery objectives
2. Database operations and observability
- Diagnose and tune PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS: query plans, indexing, autovacuum, locking, backups, replicas and upgrades
- Own monitoring and alerting across CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and New Relic, with dashboards and service level objectives that are actionable and low on noise
3. Cloud and hybrid networking
- Design and run cloud network architecture (VPC / VNet, routing, load balancing and DNS)
- Own site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnels and cloud-to-cloud connectivity, including BGP routing, redundancy and failover
4. CI/CD, automation and release support
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage all infrastructure as code and automate deployments and rollbacks
5. Governance, security and cost
- Benchmark and maintain the Microsoft and AWS cloud tenants against best practice (Secure Score, Defender for Cloud, Security Hub)
- Implement cloud security controls, pipeline security scanning and vulnerability remediation to the baselines set by the Security and Compliance Manager
- Shape and run INUKA's FinOps approach: track and optimise cloud spend (tagging, rightsizing, savings plans) and report on it monthly
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 (National Senior Certificate)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Microsoft Azure certifications: AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305 and SC-300
- ITIL V4 Foundation
- 5+ years' experience in infrastructure, cloud or platform engineering
- 3+ years running production workloads on AWS and/or Azure (AWS is INUKA's main platform)
- 3+ years building and operating CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
- 3+ years' hands-on PostgreSQL operations on Amazon RDS or a similar managed service (operational database administration, not data engineering)
- 3+ years' production observability experience (for example CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and New Relic, Datadog or Dynatrace)
- Experience designing and operating highly scalable, high-availability platforms with significant traffic peaks
- Hybrid and multi-cloud networking: site-to-site IPsec VPN, BGP routing and VPC / VNet architecture
- Experience in an on-call or standby rotation
- Valid driver's licence and own car (travel between INUKA's Bellville sites)
Advantageous
- Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or Azure AZ-400
- AWS Advanced Networking or Azure AZ-700
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
- CIS Controls or NIST certification
- Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS / EKS / AKS)
- Experience with Linux workloads and Odoo or a similar ERP
- Experience managing cloud tenant posture and working with external development partners
Location & Employment Type
Permanent, full-time position based at INUKA in Bellville, Cape Town [office-based / hybrid – to confirm], with travel between INUKA's Bellville sites (own car required). After-hours support is required through an on-call / standby rotation.
Package & RemunerationA competitive, market-related salary will be offered in line with experience and the level of responsibility.
This is an Employment Equity position. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in line with INUKA's Employment Equity plan.
Interested?Apply via PNET with your updated CV and complete the screening questions.
Please note: If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.