Platform Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes & Cloud

Doist; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health and Wellness

RSUs

Coursera subscription

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Job summary

impact.com is looking for a Platform Infrastructure Engineer to help build and scale our infrastructure layer. You’ll work with senior engineers, deploying platform services and writing production Java code to support 600+ developers.

You’ll gain hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud providers, and IaC, while growing in a collaborative engineering environment and learning best practices for reliability and scale.

Qualifications

• Solid software‑engineering fundamentals with Java or similar programming experience.
• Familiarity with basic networking and cloud concepts.
• Comfort with Linux command line and willingness to learn systems administration basics.
• Interest in how systems work at scale and production reliability.
• Exposure to IaC tools like Terraform is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform infrastructure abstractions and translate requests into IaC deployments.
• Deploy and operate platform‑layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters.
• Operate managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka).
• Consume IaC modules and feed back improvements.
• Write production‑quality Java code and design infrastructure solutions with senior engineers.

Skills

Java

Linux command line

Cloud concepts

Collaboration

System administration basics

Production systems

Willingness to learn

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

impact.com is looking for a Platform Infrastructure Engineer to help build and scale our infrastructure layer. You’ll work with senior engineers, deploying platform services and writing production Java code to support 600+ developers.

You’ll gain hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud providers, and IaC, while growing in a collaborative engineering environment and learning best practices for reliability and scale.