Platform Cloud Engineer - Johannesburg - R1m PA

Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable, containerised environments? We're looking for a Platform Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices to help build, optimise, and support cloud-native platforms powering enterprise-scale applications.

If you love automation, rock-solid infrastructure, and designing platforms the right way, this role is the perfect match.

What You Bring

Strong AWS experience across

EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront

Solid understanding of AWS

Well-Architected Frameworks

Hands-on

Kubernetes (EKS)

administration

Observability/monitoring skills:

X-Ray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana

Experience with

CI/CD tools

- AWS DevOps, Jenkins

Familiarity with

cloud-native toolsets

(Helm, Kustomize)

Strong containerisation background

Programming experience in

Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript

Solid

Linux

competency

Your Responsibilities

Manage and build

CI/CD pipelines

(Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

Own

Kubernetes administration : ingress, networking, RBAC

Enhance

observability and monitoring

(SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, alerting)

Use

IaC tools

such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane

Oversee

release management

and deployment best practices

Skills&Experience We Value

AWS Associate certification or extensive AWS experience

Kubernetes Application Developer certification or equivalent practical exposure

Strong Kubernetes admin skills

Solid hands-on experience with

Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK

GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)

Monitoring experience:

Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Reference Number: GZ60876

This is a

permanent role , based in

Johannesburg , offering a

CTC of R1m per annum , negotiable based on experience and ability.

Interested? Email

Garth

at or Call

011 463 3633

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