Platform Engineer/Cloud Engineer

The Skills Mine; Johannesburg; Presencial; ZAR 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Skills Mine in Johannesburg is seeking a Platform/Cloud Engineer to architect, implement and operate scalable cloud platforms using Kubernetes and containerized workloads on AWS.

You will drive IaC, GitOps, observability, and release governance, collaborating with DevOps, development, and security teams to deliver reliable cloud apps.

Formación

• AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience.
• Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes administrative tasks.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize.
• Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.

Responsabilidades

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane).
• Release management and oversight.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Jenkins

Herramientas

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS DevOps Tools

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

Our client is a prominent Software Development Company looking for a Platform/Cloud Engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, CI/CD tools, and in building and supporting apps running on AWS.

Requirements:

• AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
• Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
• Familiarity with Kubernetes administrative tasks
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDKS
• Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
• Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Must have a good understanding of the following services and/or concepts:

• AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
• Observability and Monitoring (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
• DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
• Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
• Containerization
• Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities:

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
• Release management and oversight