Platform Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes & Cloud

Impact; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Health & Wellness

RSUs

Coursera access

Parental Leave

Tech stipend

Job summary

impact.com is hiring for a Shared Services and Infrastructure role in Cape Town. You will craft platform infrastructure abstractions, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based services, and contribute to reliable, scalable systems used by 600+ engineers.

Ideal candidates have solid Java skills, cloud familiarity (GCP preferred), and a collaborative mindset. This role offers flexible working and growth into platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Solid software-engineering fundamentals with Java or similar programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements.
• Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them.
• Help operate and maintain managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka).
• Consume Cloud Operations’ IaC modules and feed back operational lessons.
• Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions, with security best practices by default.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Java

Linux CLI

Cloud concepts

Kubernetes

Collaborative mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

impact.com is hiring for a Shared Services and Infrastructure role in Cape Town. You will craft platform infrastructure abstractions, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based services, and contribute to reliable, scalable systems used by 600+ engineers.

Ideal candidates have solid Java skills, cloud familiarity (GCP preferred), and a collaborative mindset. This role offers flexible working and growth into platform engineering.