Platform Java Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

Electrum Software; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 780,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work

Generous Leave

Office Perks (Cape Town)

Job summary

Electrum Software in Cape Town is seeking Java engineers to join the Platforms team, building the tooling used to deploy and run software at scale on AWS. From day one you’ll work on Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions to make the golden path of development effortless.

You’ll learn across the stack, from JVM behavior to container memory limits, and contribute to automated tooling that diagnoses production issues.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong with Java and JVM-based systems.
• A university degree or an equivalent number of years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform engineering building tooling used to deploy and run software at scale.
• Upgrade clusters and networking stacks with minimal disruption to live payments traffic.
• Develop a control plane to track component versions and flag drift across environments.
• Automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual toil to improve developer productivity.

Skills

Java

Software development

Team collaboration

Education

University degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Terraform / CloudFormation

GitOps / ArgoCD

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Job description

Electrum Software in Cape Town is seeking Java engineers to join the Platforms team, building the tooling used to deploy and run software at scale on AWS. From day one you’ll work on Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions to make the golden path of development effortless.

You’ll learn across the stack, from JVM behavior to container memory limits, and contribute to automated tooling that diagnoses production issues.