Platform Engineering Lead - Infra & AI

ZappiStore; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,300,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Mental health days

Private medical healthcare cover

Medical Aid

Career development & training

Job summary

ZappiStore in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering to lead a team of five platform and SRE engineers, overseeing core infrastructure and AI workloads.

You will shape the roadmap with cross‑regional teams, drive IaC, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, and ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and safe AI integration. The role reports to the Director of Engineering and offers a competitive package.

Qualifications

• Strong platform skills: Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability.
• Excited and curious about AI in engineering; use AI tools and think about safe AI on real systems.
• High standards for production: availability, upgrades, security, cost, and capacity; calm in incidents.
• Ten years in software or infrastructure engineering, with at least three managing platform, SRE or infrastructure engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of five platform and SRE engineers across two areas: Core Infrastructure and Developer Experience.
• Ensure reliable, secure, current, and cost-effective infrastructure with Terraform, kOps on AWS, and GitOps.
• Develop tools to ship with minimal manual intervention and define guardrails for AI-enabled workloads.
• Work with senior engineers and leadership to set roadmaps and own rollout of projects.
• Oversee on-call and evolve it into self-serve tooling while maintaining auditability.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability

AI in engineering

Tools

kOps

Terraform

GitOps

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

ZappiStore in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering to lead a team of five platform and SRE engineers, overseeing core infrastructure and AI workloads.

You will shape the roadmap with cross‑regional teams, drive IaC, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, and ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and safe AI integration. The role reports to the Director of Engineering and offers a competitive package.