# 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 Cloud

- **Id**: 4032683
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/job-crystal-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:08:03Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T15:08:03Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6175
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Job Boards & Aggregators, HR & Recruiting AI

## Company

- **Id**: 702781
- **Name**: Job Crystal
- **Domain**: jobcrystal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/job-crystal>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes

## Salary

- **Min**: 55000
- **Max**: 65000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: yes
- **Usd annual**: 47064

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **Bicep** — Optional: no
- **Blue-Green Deployment** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Defender** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud** — Optional: no
- **New Relic** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:59:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:38:39Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 47064
- **Is top pay**: no

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