Platform Engineer

Job Intro Platform Engineer - Cape Town, WC Western Cape

Platform Engineer This is a hands-on opportunity to build and operate the cloud platforms that support a growing cosmetics and fragrance business serving customers and independent entrepreneurs across multiple African markets. You’ll help internal teams and external development partners release applications securely, reliably and efficiently across AWS and Microsoft Azure. Job Specification ABOUT THE ROLE

• Own the availability, reliability and performance of AWS and Azure hosting platforms.
• Build and maintain scalable, highly available cloud environments for business applications and high-volume transactional workloads.
• Design and operate hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, including site-to-site IPsec VPNs, BGP routing, VPCs, VNets, transit services and peering.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation and deployment processes.
• Support release planning, change approval, go/no-go decisions, rollback planning and production deployments.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs and traces using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Application Insights and New Relic.
• Create dashboards, alerts and service-level indicators, while tuning monitoring to reduce unnecessary noise.
• Operate PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS or similar managed services, including performance diagnosis, log analysis, backups, upgrades and recovery.
• Support Docker-based workloads and Kubernetes or managed container services such as ECS, EKS or AKS.
• Manage cloud tenant configuration, benchmarking and security posture using tools including Microsoft Secure Score, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and AWS Config.
• Apply cloud security and compliance controls defined by the Security and Compliance Manager.
• Support backup, restore, failover and disaster recovery testing against agreed recovery objectives.
• Improve cloud cost visibility through tagging, rightsizing and commitment-based savings.
• Work closely with the IT Technical Support Lead where office networks and directory services connect to the cloud.
• Coordinate technical work with external development partners and managed service providers.
• Contribute to on-call or standby support when required.
• Keep platform documentation current and share practical knowledge across development, support and delivery teams.

Offer WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• National Senior Certificate (Grade 12).
• A degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Five to eight years’ experience in infrastructure, cloud or platform engineering.
• At least three years’ hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS and/or Azure.
• At least three years’ experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing and operating highly scalable, highly available platforms that handle significant traffic peaks.
• Practical experience with AWS and Azure compute, storage, managed databases, networking and identity services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid networking, including VPC/VNet architecture, routing, BGP, IPsec VPNs, load balancing and DNS.
• Experience with cloud tenant configuration and security posture management.
• At least three years’ hands-on PostgreSQL operations on Amazon RDS or a similar managed service.
• Practical experience with SQL diagnostics, query plans, indexing, database logs, backups, upgrades and performance tuning.
• At least three years’ production experience with observability tools, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards and query languages such as NRQL, CloudWatch Logs Insights and KQL.
• Working knowledge of Linux administration and scripting with Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines.
• Knowledge of release strategies including blue-green deployments, canary releases and rollback procedures.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or managed container platforms.
• Understanding of IAM, least privilege, secrets management, encryption and pipeline security scanning.
• Knowledge of cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Experience working with external development partners and managed service providers.
• ITIL V4 Foundation certification.
• Experience participating in an on-call or standby rotation.

CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900).
• Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104).
• Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305).
• Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300).

NICE TO HAVE

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty or Microsoft Azure Network Engineer (AZ-700).
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner.
• CIS Controls or NIST certification.
• Experience operating Linux workloads and Odoo or a similar ERP.
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, synthetics, browser monitoring and mobile monitoring.
• Familiarity with AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute.
• Experience with FinOps practices, including cost allocation, tagging, rightsizing and commitment planning.

WHY JOIN THE BUSINESS

• Work at the centre of cloud engineering and DevOps for a cosmetics and fragrance business with operations serving markets across Africa.
• Help maintain the secure, reliable platforms behind business applications, digital services and partner-facing operations.
• Collaborate with application delivery, security, IT support, development partners and managed service providers.
• Take ownership of meaningful platform responsibilities across cloud reliability, networking, automation, observability, security, databases and cost management.
• Apply with your CV and details of your AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as Code and production platform experience.

Monthly Salary: R55000 - R65000