Lead Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS & IaC

Andile Holding; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Andile Holding, a specialist financial services technology firm in Rosebank, Johannesburg, seeks a Cloud/Platform Engineer to drive infrastructure strategy and AWS-based deployments. You will lead architectural design, mentor teams, and enforce security standards across hybrid environments.

Role emphasizes IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and distributed cloud solutions. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential to accelerate product delivery and operational

Qualifications

• 3–5 years hands-on Software/Platform/Cloud Engineering
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field
• AWS Professional-level certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional)
• Extensive experience with AWS services: VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, EKS/ECS

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support codified cloud infrastructure stacks using IaC
• Manage shared cloud infrastructure services (AWS, local providers, Nutanix)
• Oversee day-to-day platform maintenance, upgrades, and OS/server management
• Develop backups, archive operations, and data recoverability solutions
• Act as technical gatekeeper for Platform Services requests

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Golang

IaC

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Andile Holding, a specialist financial services technology firm in Rosebank, Johannesburg, seeks a Cloud/Platform Engineer to drive infrastructure strategy and AWS-based deployments. You will lead architectural design, mentor teams, and enforce security standards across hybrid environments.

Role emphasizes IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and distributed cloud solutions. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential to accelerate product delivery and operational