Client Engineering Platform Engineer

IBM; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known tech company located in Johannesburg is seeking a Platform Engineer to ensure successful deployment of cloud-based solutions. You will work closely with client teams to improve platform execution and technical outcomes. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s Degree and extensive experience with Hybrid Cloud technologies, particularly Kubernetes, as well as DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in platform engineering.
• Ability to deploy containerized applications and troubleshoot them.
• Understanding best practices for deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical expertise in their area of focus.
• Align with industry standards and deployment automation techniques.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Hybrid Cloud platforms and deployment.

Skills

Deploying containerized applications

Understanding public cloud offerings

Architectural assistance for cloud topics

Best practices for DevOps / GitOps / MLOps

Platform configuration management tools

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ARM

Job description

Overview

The Platform Engineer is responsible for driving IBM sales execution by ensuring pilot platforms are engineered to deliver customer technical and business outcomes and improve deployment of Client Engineering pilots. They work closely with other Client Engineering roles to deploy the foundation for comprehensive pilot solutions. Platform Engineers are experts at deploying solutions across Hybrid Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical expertise in their area of focus
• Align with industry standards with deep understanding across deployment automation techniques and technology
• Possess a deep understanding of the Hybrid Cloud platforms (especially OpenShift platform, the hypervisors/cloud providers on which it runs, and managed offerings: ROKS, ROSA & ARO)
• Demonstrate deep knowledge for deployment of watsonx and other IBM strategic software across the Hybrid Cloud using DevOps / MLOps practices

Qualifications

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Deploy containerized applications especially into Kubernetes and troubleshoot deployments, advising clients on best practices
• Understand/Advise on the widely adopted Public Cloud Offerings especially relating to (compute, networking, storage, security, etc.)
• Provide architectural assistance for platform related topics across the Hybrid Cloud On-Prem and in the Public Cloud
• Advise on best practices for DevOps / GitOps / MLOps and related platform automation tools
• Understanding in tools for platform deployment and configuration management automation (Terraform, Ansible, ARM, etc.)
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)