Platform Engineer / Cloud Engineer

The Skills Mine; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company is seeking a Platform/Cloud Engineer with expertise in AWS and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will implement CI/CD pipelines, enhance monitoring systems, and manage infrastructure as code. This role requires a strong understanding of cloud services and DevOps practices to support applications running on AWS.

Qualifications

• AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience.
• Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Implementing CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Enhancing monitoring and observability systems.
• Managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

CI / CD

Terraform

DevOps Practices

Education

AWS Associate certification

Kubernetes Application Developer certification

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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:

1. AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
2. Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
3. Familiarity with Kubernetes administrative tasks
4. Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
5. Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
6. Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
7. Good understanding of AWS services (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
8. Knowledge of Observability and Monitoring tools (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
9. Experience with DevOps Practices and CI / CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
10. Familiarity with Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
11. Understanding of Containerization, Distributed systems, and architectures

Responsibilities:

1. Implementing CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)
2. Enhancing monitoring, observability (SLO, SLI, SLA), and alerting systems
3. Managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane
4. Overseeing release management processes