Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Expert

QE Services IT Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

QE Services IT Recruitment is seeking a Platform Engineer in Cape Town to design, build and maintain scalable internal developer platforms for engineering teams. You will develop self-service capabilities, APIs and automation to streamline software development and deployment.

You will implement IaC with Terraform/CDK/Pulumi, manage Kubernetes environments and lead GitOps workflows while delivering robust CI/CD pipelines and observability across systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a Software Engineer with Java, JavaScript, Golang or Python.
• 3+ years in Platform Engineering and self-service platform experience.
• 4+ years with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• 4+ years with containerisation technologies and cloud-native tech.
• Expert knowledge of IaC with Terraform, CDK, Pulumi or Crossplane.
• Strong Kubernetes, GitOps and CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and reliable internal developer platforms for engineering teams.
• Develop self-service platform capabilities, APIs, automation and tools that simplify software development and deployment.
• Build reusable platform components and abstractions enabling engineering teams to work efficiently.
• Implement and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools and best practices.
• Manage and optimise container platforms and Kubernetes environments.
• Implement GitOps workflows for application deployment and infrastructure management.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated builds, testing, deployment and delivery.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics and tracing to improve system visibility and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, infrastructure and application issues to ensure system availability and performance.
• Apply cloud architecture best practices and Well-Architected Framework principles to platform design and implementation.
• Collaborate with software engineers to understand requirements and deliver effective platform solutions.
• Evaluate technologies, identify automation opportunities and continuously improve platform capabilities.
• Promote platform capabilities as a product or service for internal engineering teams.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Golang

Python

Platform engineering

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

DevOps

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

Crossplane

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Job description

QE Services IT Recruitment is seeking a Platform Engineer in Cape Town to design, build and maintain scalable internal developer platforms for engineering teams. You will develop self-service capabilities, APIs and automation to streamline software development and deployment.

You will implement IaC with Terraform/CDK/Pulumi, manage Kubernetes environments and lead GitOps workflows while delivering robust CI/CD pipelines and observability across systems.