Lead Platform Engineer - Contract, Braamfontein

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join their team in Johannesburg on a contract basis. They offer stability, excellent rates, growth and a great working environment.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing the platform that powers our web applications. You will have to work closely with other engineers on this team as well as across other departments within the company. Experience working with cloud platforms is preferred but not required.

Requirements

• Design, build, configure and maintain team core on-prem and cloud infrastructure
• Deploy, operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters for the team and its customers
• Be responsible for observability of the platform infrastructure
• Engage with our internal customers, help to onboard them onto our container platform and resolve their issues
• Co-operate with Bison Developer Experience team to help building company Internal Development Platform
• Automate all things that are possible and reasonable to automate with Terraform
• Be the expert for CTO stakeholders and fellow CTO org teams on underlying cloud-native container infrastructure and tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field required
• Knowledge of various cloud platforms is preferred
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering
• 8+ years of working experience with Kubernetes
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes day 2 tools and Kubernetes troubleshooting techniques
• Hands-on knowledge of containerized application deployment methods (k8s manifests, kustomize, helm)
• Hands-on knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc)
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux platform and shell scripting
• Hands-on knowledge of IaC and related infrastructure deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane)