Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS & Azure, Automation Lead

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Cape Town seeks a Platform Engineer to own cloud platforms and DevOps, delivering automated, reliable deployments across AWS and Azure.

You will build scalable infrastructure, improve performance, and ensure security, stability and high availability to support business-critical applications.

Applicants should have 5–8 years in infra, strong AWS/Azure, CI/CD, IaC experience, and a track record with multi-cloud networking and observability.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years running production workloads on AWS and/or Azure.
• 3+ years building and operating CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Experience designing highly scalable, HA platforms.
• Experience managing cloud security posture and services.
• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud networking (IPsec, BGP, VPC/VNet).
• Experience with Linux workloads and ERP like Odoo is a plus.
• 3+ years PostgreSQL operations on managed services (RDS).
• Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic).
• Experience with external partners and on-call rotations.

Skills

Cloud infra

AWS & Azure

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Platform reliability

Security posture

Multi-cloud networking

Linux workloads

PostgreSQL (RDS)

Observability tooling

On-call rotation

Education

National Senior Certificate

Bachelors/ Diploma in IT or CS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Azure AZ-305

SC-300

ITIL 4 Foundation

AWS DevOps/ Azure DevOps

Azure AZ-700

Terraform Associate

CIS Controls / NIST

Tools

AWS

Azure

PostgreSQL (RDS)

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Security hubs (Security Hub, Defender)

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Cape Town seeks a Platform Engineer to own cloud platforms and DevOps, delivering automated, reliable deployments across AWS and Azure.

You will build scalable infrastructure, improve performance, and ensure security, stability and high availability to support business-critical applications.

Applicants should have 5–8 years in infra, strong AWS/Azure, CI/CD, IaC experience, and a track record with multi-cloud networking and observability.