Platform Reliability Engineer - Own Security & Scale

Collier Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1 185 000 - 1 525 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment firm in Johannesburg is looking for a Platform Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure and ensure security and compliance. You will own uptime and performance for production applications, manage CI/CD pipelines, and handle incident responses. The ideal candidate has strong experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, and security practices. This role offers a competitive compensation package and opportunities for growth in a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Autonomy to choose tools and design processes

Opportunities for growth into leadership roles

Qualifications

• 3+ years operating production apps on Heroku, AWS, DigitalOcean, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with Sentry, Paper trail (or similar), logs.
• Understanding of IAM, encryption in transit/at rest, MFA/SSO.
• Experience implementing automated backups and maintaining incident runbooks.
• Ability to document processes clearly and work closely with developers.

Responsibilities

• Own uptime, performance, and monitoring for all production applications.
• Manage Heroku pipelines, CI/CD, review apps, and production environments.
• Operate Celery workers, monitor health, and handle missed task check-ins.
• Define and track service level objectives (SLOs) for availability.
• Run periodic disaster recovery drills and lead post-mortems.
• Manage daily backups and ensure restore tests are in place.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & incident response

Security fundamentals

Disaster recovery & backups

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Sentry

GitHub Actions

Job description

A leading tech recruitment firm in Johannesburg is looking for a Platform Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure and ensure security and compliance. You will own uptime and performance for production applications, manage CI/CD pipelines, and handle incident responses. The ideal candidate has strong experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, and security practices. This role offers a competitive compensation package and opportunities for growth in a dynamic team environment.