Platform/ Cloud Engineer

Tumaini Consulting; Durban; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client is seeking a Platform / Cloud Engineer with strong Kubernetes, AWS, and containerisation experience to support modern cloud-native workloads.

Responsibilities include automating infrastructure, building scalable platforms, and enabling development teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience including EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
• Solid Kubernetes experience, particularly EKS
• Experience with containerisation and cloud-native architectures
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, AWS DevOps tooling) and Helm/Kustomize
• Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
• Kubernetes GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux
• Monitoring/observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray or OpenTracing
• Linux experience and distributed systems understanding
• Exposure to Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Distributed systems

Programming (Python Go Java JavaScript

Tools

EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Helm

Kustomize

ArgoCD

Flux

Jenkins

CloudWatch

Grafana

Prometheus

X-Ray

Job description

Our client is seeking a Platform / Cloud Engineer with strong Kubernetes, AWS, and containerisation experience to support modern cloud-native workloads. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys automation, infrastructure, reliability, and building platforms that enable development teams to deliver software efficiently and securely.

Requirements:

• Strong experience with AWS, including services such as EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, and CloudFront.
• Understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Solid Kubernetes experience, particularly EKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration, including networking, ingress, and RBAC.
• Strong understanding of containerisation and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and AWS DevOps tooling.
• Experience with Helm and/or Kustomize.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Monitoring and observability experience using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray, or OpenTracing.
• Linux experience.
• Understanding of distributed systems and architectures.
• Exposure to programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.