Intermediate Platform Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town is seeking an Intermediate Platform Engineer to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines, and platform engineering standards. You will work with Terraform, Docker, Ansible and AWS in a fast-paced agile setting, writing automation scripts in Bash/Python, and collaborating with the team.

The role requires a degree or equivalent experience, 3–5 years in development, strong English communication, and a proactive, team-oriented

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• At least 3 to 5 years in active Development roles.
• Experience with Terraform and Docker.
• Strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
• Professional, Self-motivated attitude.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Responsibilities

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
• Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.
• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.

Skills

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Linux

MySQL

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Job description

About the job Intermediate Platform Engineer

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• At least 3 to 5 years in active Development roles.
• Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.
• Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
• Professional, Self-motivated attitude.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Responsibilities:

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
• Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.
• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.
• Proactively improve products, systems and processes.
• Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.
• Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.