Platform & Engineering Lead – Cloud, DevOps, Security

Pedros; Durban; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Pedros seeks a Platform and Engineering Manager who will own the hosting infrastructure across AWS, Azure and private environments, and lead a hands-on software development team. This senior technical leadership role focuses on cost control, security, capacity planning and reliable deployments.

The role requires enduring hands-on ownership of production systems, strong collaboration with IT and engineering, and the ability to drive standards for CI/CD, monitoring and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, software or security engineering.
• Proven experience leading engineers and driving production initiatives.
• Hands-on ownership of production systems.
• Strong cost awareness and security discipline.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with AWS, Azure and private hosting.

Responsibilities

• Own hosting end-to-end for Pedros apps and internal systems across AWS, Azure and private hosting.
• Ensure deployments are correct across environments: configuration, dependencies, security and performance.
• Decide workload placement balancing cost, performance, security and data protection.
• Keep architecture/runbooks/configuration documentation accurate and current.
• Own container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines used to deploy Pedros software.
• Lead risk assessment, change approvals and cost impact discussions with stakeholders.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

DevOps ownership

Cloud platform expertise

Security fundamentals

Cost management

Team coaching

Vendor management

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Pedros seeks a Platform and Engineering Manager who will own the hosting infrastructure across AWS, Azure and private environments, and lead a hands-on software development team. This senior technical leadership role focuses on cost control, security, capacity planning and reliable deployments.

The role requires enduring hands-on ownership of production systems, strong collaboration with IT and engineering, and the ability to drive standards for CI/CD, monitoring and disaster recovery.