Platform Engineer: Scale Production with AWS & CI/CD

Datafin; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Johannesburg seeks a Platform Engineer with at least 3 years of experience in managing production applications on Heroku, AWS, or DigitalOcean. The ideal candidate will oversee CI/CD pipelines, enhance developer workflows, and ensure platform reliability and security. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, contributing to cutting-edge projects while ensuring high standards of uptime, performance, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience operating production apps on Heroku, AWS, DigitalOcean, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with Sentry, Papertrail (or similar), logs, and uptime/performance dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Manage Heroku pipelines, CI/CD, review apps, and production environments.
• Own uptime, performance, and monitoring for all production applications.
• Maintain CI pipelines with type checking, linting, and security scanning.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Management

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & incident response

Security Fundamentals

Communication & collaboration

Infrastructure as Code & automation

Asynchronous workloads

Scaling & cost optimisation

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Sentry

Papertrail

AWS

DigitalOcean

Job description

A leading financial technology company in Johannesburg seeks a Platform Engineer with at least 3 years of experience in managing production applications on Heroku, AWS, or DigitalOcean. The ideal candidate will oversee CI/CD pipelines, enhance developer workflows, and ensure platform reliability and security. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, contributing to cutting-edge projects while ensuring high standards of uptime, performance, and incident response.