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AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 500 000 - 700 000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Johannesburg is looking for a skilled Platform / Cloud Engineer to design and support applications utilizing AWS technologies and Kubernetes. The role involves developing CI/CD pipelines and enhancing monitoring systems. Ideal candidates should have experience with Terraform and Jenkins, along with relevant certifications in AWS and Kubernetes. A collaborative environment is offered, focused on reliability and automation.

Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS services such as EKS, VPC, S3, RDS.
  • Familiarity with Cloud Native Toolsets like Helm and Kustomize.
  • Strong background in building and supporting applications on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent.
  • Enhance monitoring systems for better observability.
  • Utilize Infrastructure-as-Code tools for deployment.

Skills

Kubernetes
AWS
CI/CD
Terraform
Monitoring (Grafana, CloudWatch)

Education

AWS Associate level certification
Kubernetes Application Developer certification

Tools

Terraform
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Prometheus
Job description

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 08/10/2025

We are looking for a Platform / Cloud Engineer with solidexperience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS.

Overview
Core Requirements
  • AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
  • Observability and Monitoring (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
  • DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
  • Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
  • Containerisation
  • Distributedsystems and architectures
Responsibilities
  • CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)
  • Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
  • Release management and oversite
  • SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring
Additional Qualifications
  • AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
  • Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
  • Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
  • Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS
  • Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
  • Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
  • Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/ or internal developer platforms
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