AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

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