Platform Engineer - Cloud Infra & IaC

impact.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Mental health support

RSUs with 3-year vesting

Coursera access

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Internet/mobile allowance

Job summary

impact.com is seeking a mid-level infrastructure engineer to join the Shared Services and Infrastructure team. You’ll design, deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure powering 600+ product engineers, writing production-quality Java code and owning infrastructure abstractions.

You’ll work with Kubernetes, VPCs, compute pools and IaC modules, collaborating with senior engineers to improve scalability, reliability and security while growing your own expertise in cloud-native operations.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of software development experience with Java or similar languages.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: you write clean, testable code and understand how to build reliable systems.
• 1+ year of hands‑on experience deploying software to and operating in a cloud environment.
• Comfort with Linux command line and solid understanding of network and cloud computing concepts.
• Familiarity with IaC concepts and hands‑on experience with IaC or GitOps tools such as Terraform, Argo CD or equivalent.
• A collaborative approach: you work well with senior engineers, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements.
• Deploy and operate platform‑layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters.
• Own the operation and maintenance of managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka).
• Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules effectively and feed back operational lessons.
• Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions with security baked in.
• Contribute to the team's infrastructure standards and practices: code reviews and runbooks.

Skills

Java

Cloud

Linux

IaC

GitOps

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

impact.com is seeking a mid-level infrastructure engineer to join the Shared Services and Infrastructure team. You’ll design, deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure powering 600+ product engineers, writing production-quality Java code and owning infrastructure abstractions.

You’ll work with Kubernetes, VPCs, compute pools and IaC modules, collaborating with senior engineers to improve scalability, reliability and security while growing your own expertise in cloud-native operations.