Senior Platform Engineer

At Deimos, we're on a mission to become Africa's number one multi-cloud partner - leading the way in implementation, migration, and modernisation across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Huawei, et al. We combine this with bespoke software engineering services and our own homegrown products (Salus, Patrol, and others in incubation) to help businesses transform, scale, and thrive.

We're an Africa-based team passionate about implementing engineering best practices. We leverage the latest technologies, and build globally competitive solutions for our clients. With Deimos being one of the two moons of Mars, we like to refer to ourselves as "Martians", who are on a mission to Mars, together.

Our teams value the ability to learn and adapt to technology changes while appreciating solid foundational design and the craft of software engineering. As such, our teams enjoy working with various clients who have different problems to solve. If this sounds like you, you would be an ideal fit for our environment.

Note: You must be based in one of the countries we currently hire in - in Africa or the UK.

Role Overview

We are seeking an Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that support the development, deployment, and operation of applications across the organisation. In this role you will treat our cloud infrastructure as a product and our internal developers as your customers. Your mission is to make the right path the easiest path: building self-service tooling, automated guardrails, and a platform experience that lets engineers move fast without breaking things.You will enable engineering teams by automating infrastructure, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability and performance. You will play a key role in driving Platform Engineering best practices, improving developer productivity, and fostering operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling.

What You Will Be Doing

• Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads.
• Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.
• Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD.
• Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
• Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems.
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.
• Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.
• Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, and Load Balancing.
• Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Apache Kafka.
• Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain self-service tooling and golden paths that reduce cognitive load for product teams.

What You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications.
• 2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.
• 2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments.
• Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.
• A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale.
• Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

About You

For us to achieve our ambitious vision together as a team, it is important for our Martians to lead at all levels, be self-starters who take ownership of their work, and continuously push the boundaries of what is possible. You thrive in a collaborative environment, communicate openly, and are energised by solving complex, real-world problems.

Becoming a Martian means

• Comfortably working and learning from a fully remote, culturally diverse team based predominantly in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.
• Being an open, honest and respectful communicator.
• You enjoy asking questions, identifying areas of improvement and proposing solutions, no matter your job title or whether you have been with us for a day, a month or years!
• You are comfortable taking initiative and operating independently.
• You thrive in a fast paced environment, where change is constant.
• You find it exciting to work with various clients, from different industries, each with a different problem for you and your team to solve.
• Intentionally sharing tech and industry trends that excite you with your peers.
• Seeking continuous feedback and actively taking steps to continuously grow personally and professionally.

Want to know what you get by joining us?

• Become a member of a team where we value each individual's contribution from day 1 and empower you to make suggestions, get involved and do what you love most!
• Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.
• Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.
• A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.
• A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home. Whether that is pens, notebooks, new headphones or work snacks!
• A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.
• Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.
• We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!