Senior Platform Engineer

Reference: JHB000969-AS-1

One of South Africa's Banking Giants is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help reimagine how software moves from commit to production in an AI-first world. Duties & Responsibilities Their focus is extending their Internal Developer Platform to support AI-generated software, removing bottlenecks that slow engineers down, and building the guardrails, automation and governance needed to safely accelerate delivery at scale. You'll be building platform capabilities that influence the day-to-day experience of 1,000+ engineers, shaping how software is built, tested, secured and released across the organisation.  Working across GitHub, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps and CI/CD, you'll help challenge traditional assumptions about software delivery and engineer the next generation of developer workflows. Many of today's delivery models were designed for a world where humans authored most of the code.  This role is for someone who enjoys building more than maintaining. Someone who can take an idea from concept to POC to production. Someone who sees friction, questions why it exists, and then automates it away.   About the team They operate within a broader platform engineering function responsible for developer experience, Kubernetes and platform support. This role sits in the team focused on our internal developer platform, the tooling engineers use to provision infrastructure, build pipelines and deploy into their cloud environment. The platform is used by multiple engineering teams across the business and is central to how they deliver software at scale. The team currently includes engineers across multiple seniority levels, and they are adding another senior engineer to strengthen their technical depth. What you'll do

• They will rely on you to design and implement infrastructure using code, enabling consistent, repeatable and scalable environments across their cloud platform.
• They will expect you to build and optimise cloud-native deployment pipelines that support high-frequency, low-risk releases.
• They will look to you to enhance their internal developer platform, improving how engineers provision infrastructure and deploy services.
• They will count on you to troubleshoot complex platform and performance issues across distributed systems and lead root-cause investigations.
• They will expect you to contribute to architectural decisions across microservices, event-driven systems and cloud-native patterns.
• They will rely on you to mentor other engineers and raise the engineering standard across the team. 

Why this role is different They build platforms for engineers, not end-users. That means every decision is grounded in performance, reliability and usability at scale. They give you the opportunity to: 

• Influence platform architecture across cloud, containers and automation.
• Build tools that are used across engineering teams, not just a single product.
• Work on complex distributed systems with real production scale.
• Introduce new capabilities, including practical AI-driven enhancements to the developer experience.
• Contribute as a senior technical contributor without needing formal line management. 

What they are looking for

• Deep experience in platform engineering, site reliability or DevOps engineering.
• At least five years of hands-on experience working in cloud environments.
• Strong experience building infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, for example Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong hands-on experience with containers and orchestration, particularly Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, including microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Strong scripting or programming capability, for example Python, Go, Bash or PowerShell.
• We value experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, supported by relevant certifications.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, APIs, databases and distributed systems.
• Engineers who can clearly explain their architecture decisions and the systems they've built.
• They value experience leading or influencing engineering practices and mentoring others.  

Education (Minimum)

• A relevant degree in Information Technology

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• A relevant degree in Information Technology - IT Engineering

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.
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