# Senior Platform Engineer

Build the future of engineering in financial services Our client in the financial services industry is looking for a highly technical Senior Platform Engineer to help transform how software is built, secured, tested and deployed across a large-scale engineering environment. You will contribute to the evolution of an Internal Developer Platform supporting more than 1,000 engineers, enabling faster, safer and more consistent software delivery through automation, cloud-native technologies and AI-enabled engineering practices. The focus is on removing engineering bottlenecks, enabling developer self-service and introducing the automation, security guardrails and governance required to accelerate delivery within a complex, business-critical environment. Working across AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform, GitOps and CI/CD, you will design and implement scalable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity while supporting enterprise security, operational resilience and reliability. This is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building innovative solutions and taking ideas from concept and proof of concept through

- **Id**: 3719196
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dearx-senior-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Stellenbosch, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T02:09:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T23:00:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5428
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4506168
- **Name**: DeARX
- **Domain**: dearx.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dearx>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T02:09:57Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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