Platform & Infrastructure Lead - Cloud, DevOps

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

Job summary

Pedros Chicken in Durban seeks a Platform and Engineering Manager to own hosting infrastructure across AWS, Azure and private environments, oversee deployments, and ensure security, performance and reliability for all Pedros applications.

You will lead the hosting, DevOps, and change-control processes, enforce release standards with rollback plans, and drive cost awareness and capacity planning. This role focuses on delivering resilient, scalable systems in a fast-paced restaurant tech stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, software or security engineering.
• Hands-on ownership of production systems.
• Experience with AWS, Azure and private hosting environments.
• Experience with containerised workloads and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security-focused SDLC and cost/capacity management.

Responsibilities

• Own hosting end to end for Pedros applications and internal systems across AWS, Azure and private hosting, from design and deployment to availability, backup and recovery.
• Automate provisioning and deployment with infrastructure-as-code so releases are repeatable, reviewed and reversible.
• Set the technical release standard, including testing and rollback, and hold the team to it.
• Build security checks into the pipeline and enforce them.
• Act as first approver for changes to hosted systems and deployments.
• Keep change records for deployments and evidence for audit.
• Keep sight of hosting and cloud budget and drive cost awareness and optimization.
• Plan capacity ahead of demand and lead the technical response when hosted systems fail.

Skills

AWS

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Security fundamentals

Cost management

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Pedros Chicken in Durban seeks a Platform and Engineering Manager to own hosting infrastructure across AWS, Azure and private environments, oversee deployments, and ensure security, performance and reliability for all Pedros applications.

You will lead the hosting, DevOps, and change-control processes, enforce release standards with rollback plans, and drive cost awareness and capacity planning. This role focuses on delivering resilient, scalable systems in a fast-paced restaurant tech stack.