Senior Platform Developer

Bebeeplatformengineer; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking an experienced professional to manage production applications on Heroku and related cloud platforms. The role involves ensuring uptime, performance monitoring, and managing CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience with cloud infrastructure, Git Hub Actions, and security fundamentals. Effective communication and ability to document processes clearly are essential. This position offers an opportunity to work within a collaborative team environment, focusing on incident response and disaster recovery plans.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years' experience operating production apps on Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Git Hub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Sentry and Papertrail.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime, performance, and monitoring of all production applications.
• Manage Heroku pipelines and CI/CD processes efficiently.
• Coordinate disaster recovery drills and penetration tests.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Management

CI / CD Pipelines

Monitoring & Incident Response

Security Fundamentals

Disaster Recovery & Backups

Communication & Collaboration

Job description

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced professional to manage Heroku pipelines, CI / CD, review apps, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure the uptime, performance, and monitoring of all production applications.

Manage Heroku pipelines, CI / CD, review apps, and production environments with efficiency.

Operate Celery workers and queues, monitor health, and handle missed task check-ins.

Define and track service level objectives (SLOs) such as availability, latency, and task success rate.

Maintain runbooks for incident response, a centralised wiki, and lead post-mortems.

Coordinate periodic disaster recovery drills and penetration tests.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Cloud Infrastructure Management : At least 3 years' experience operating production apps on Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean, or similar platforms.

CI / CD Pipelines : Hands-on experience with Git Hub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent; solid Git fundamentals.

Monitoring & Incident Response : Experience with Sentry, Papertrail, logs, and uptime / performance dashboards.

Security Fundamentals : Understanding of IAM, encryption in transit / at rest, MFA / SSO, and secure configuration practices.

Disaster Recovery & Backups : Experience implementing and operating automated backups, restore testing, and writing / maintaining incident runbooks.

Communication & Collaboration : Ability to document processes clearly and work closely with developers in a small team.