Platform Engineer

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

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 10/11/2026

Build it. Automate it. Secure it. Scale it.

Are you passionate about cloud technology, automation and building platforms that just work? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, improving performance and making sure applications are always ready for business?

We're looking for a talented Platform Engineer to take ownership of our cloud platforms and DevOps environment, helping development teams deliver applications faster, smarter and more reliably.

This is an opportunity to work across AWS and Microsoft Azure, build scalable cloud infrastructure, automate deployments and ensure that business-critical platforms remain secure, stable and high-performing.

Requirements

• 5 - 8 years’experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
  
• 3+ years’hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS and/or Azure.
  
• 3+ years’experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
  
• Provenexperience designing and operating highly scalable, high-availability platformsthat handle significant traffic peaks (for example e-commerce, high-volumetransactional, or mobile platforms).
  
• Experiencemanaging cloud tenant configuration and security posture using Microsoft SecureScore, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and AWS Security Hub or equivalent tools.
  
• Experiencedesigning and operating hybrid and multi-cloud network connectivity:site-to-site IPsec VPN, BGP routing, and cloud network architecture (VPC /VNet, transit, and peering).
  
• Experienceoperating Linux workloads and Odoo or a similar ERP (advantageous).
  
• 3+ years’hands-on PostgreSQL operations on Amazon RDS or a similar managed service:SQL-based performance diagnosis, log analysis, tuning, backups and upgrades(operational database administration, not data engineering).
  
• 3+ years’hands-on experience with observability tooling in production: AmazonCloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Application Insights, and New Relic (or anequivalent such as Datadog or Dynatrace), including instrumentation, alerting,dashboards, and query languages (NRQL, CloudWatch Logs Insights, KQL).
  
• Experienceworking with external development partners and managed service providers.
  
• Experienceparticipating in an on-call or standby rotation.
  

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate (Grade12).
  
• Degree or Diploma in InformationTechnology, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred)
  
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect(Associate or Professional)
  
• Designing Microsoft AzureInfrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
  
• Microsoft Identity and AccessAdministrator (SC-300)
  
• ITIL V4 Foundation
  
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer(Professional) or Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) (advantageous)
  
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking(Specialty) or Microsoft Azure Network Engineer (AZ-700) (advantageous)
  
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate(advantageous)
  
• CIS Controls / NIST certification(advantageous)