Cloud Platform Engineer: Automate, Secure & Scale

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Eersterivier; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is seeking a Platform Engineer to own our cloud platforms and DevOps landscape. You will help development teams deliver applications faster, smarter and more reliably across AWS and Azure.

You will build scalable infrastructure, automate deployments and ensure security, stability and high performance of business‑critical platforms, while engaging with partners and participating in on‑call rotations.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years’ experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years’ hands‑on experience running production workloads on AWS and/or Azure.
• 3+ years’ experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven experience designing and operating highly scalable, highly‑availability platforms with significant traffic.
• Experience managing cloud tenant configuration and security posture using security tooling.
• Experience designing and operating hybrid and multi‑cloud network connectivity.
• Experience operating Linux workloads and Odoo or similar ERP (advantageous).
• 3+ years’ PostgreSQL operations on RDS or similar: performance diagnosis, backups, upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud platforms and DevOps environments across AWS and Azure.
• Help development teams deliver applications faster, smarter and more reliably.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure and automate deployments.
• Ensure business‑critical platforms remain secure, stable and high‑performing.
• Collaborate with external partners and manage on‑call rotations.

Skills

Cloud platforms

DevOps

On-call rotation

High traffic platforms

Security posture

Hybrid/multi-cloud networking

PostgreSQL operations

Education

Degree or Diploma in IT/CS

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS Solutions Architect

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

AZ-305

SC-300

ITIL v4 Foundation

Tools

AWS

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

CloudWatch

Application Insights

New Relic

Datadog

Dynatrace

KQL

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is seeking a Platform Engineer to own our cloud platforms and DevOps landscape. You will help development teams deliver applications faster, smarter and more reliably across AWS and Azure.

You will build scalable infrastructure, automate deployments and ensure security, stability and high performance of business‑critical platforms, while engaging with partners and participating in on‑call rotations.