Platform Infrastructure Engineer: Kubernetes & Cloud

impact.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Mental health support

RSUs with 3-year vesting

Coursera access

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Job summary

impact.com is expanding its Shared Services and Infrastructure team in Cape Town to build scalable platform infrastructure. You’ll write production Java code, deploy platform services, and support Kubernetes clusters at scale for 600+ engineers. This role emphasizes IaC, cloud architecture, and strong collaboration.

If you want hands-on experience with cloud-native systems and production reliability, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands-on experience with GCP (primary), AWS or Azure (preferred).
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, or orchestration concepts (preferred).
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform (preferred).
• Experience working in a collaborative engineering environment or internship experience (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Implement platform infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements: translating high-level requests into IaC parameters and production-grade deployments.
• Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them, using IaC modules provided by Cloud Operations.
• Help operate and maintain managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) that service teams depend on.
• Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules and feed back operational lessons and enhancement requests.
• Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions, baking in security and best practices by default.
• Work alongside senior engineers to design and implement infrastructure solutions, learning best practices in cloud architecture, Kubernetes and operational discipline.

Skills

Java

Cloud basics

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GCP (primary)

AWS

Azure

Job description

impact.com is expanding its Shared Services and Infrastructure team in Cape Town to build scalable platform infrastructure. You’ll write production Java code, deploy platform services, and support Kubernetes clusters at scale for 600+ engineers. This role emphasizes IaC, cloud architecture, and strong collaboration.

If you want hands-on experience with cloud-native systems and production reliability, this is the role for you.