Platform Engineer – Kubernetes, Cloud & CI/CD

AiR; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AiR is seeking an Intermediate Platform Engineer to build and scale the platform infrastructure behind AI-driven products. You will focus on cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, reliability, and operational excellence across Kubernetes-based environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, AI, and security teams to automate infrastructure, improve developer experience, and ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and highly reliable as the product grows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across cloud and Kubernetes environments

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Python/Bash

CI/CD

Terraform/Pulumi

AWS/Azure

PostgreSQL/Redis

Observability tools

Docker/Helm

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Drone

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

AiR is seeking an Intermediate Platform Engineer to build and scale the platform infrastructure behind AI-driven products. You will focus on cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, reliability, and operational excellence across Kubernetes-based environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, AI, and security teams to automate infrastructure, improve developer experience, and ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and highly reliable as the product grows.