Platform Cloud Engineer - Kubernetes & AWS Expert

ATS Client; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ATS Client in Johannesburg is seeking a Platform Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes on AWS. You will own CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes administration, and infrastructure as code to support enterprise-scale applications.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and secure, well-architected cloud solutions, with opportunities to work across Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, ArgoCD, and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating scalable, containerised platforms on AWS.
• Strong Kubernetes administration and cloud-native tooling experience.
• Proven ability to implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and automation scripting.

Responsibilities

• Manage and build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Own Kubernetes administration: ingress, networking, RBAC.
• Enhance observability and monitoring (SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, alerting).
• Use IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane.
• Oversee release management and deployment best practices.

Skills

AWS (EKS)

Well-Architected Framework

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

ArgoCD

Monitoring

Linux

Python/Go/Java/JS

GitOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Helm

Kustomize

Crossplane

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

CloudFormation

Crossplane

CDK

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

ATS Client in Johannesburg is seeking a Platform Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes on AWS. You will own CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes administration, and infrastructure as code to support enterprise-scale applications.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and secure, well-architected cloud solutions, with opportunities to work across Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, ArgoCD, and modern DevOps practices.