Senior Platform Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment specialist is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Cape Town, South Africa. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure, developing pipelines, and setting engineering standards while navigating through an agile and fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of active development experience and strong operational expertise with technologies like Docker, Terraform, and AWS. Excellent English communication and a collaborative spirit are essential.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in active Development roles.
• Experience with Docker, Terraform, and AWS.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain independent infrastructure and development pipelines.
• Assist in research and implementation of new technologies.
• Configuration and management of servers via Docker, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Maintain reliability of CI/CD.
• Deliver software according to timelines.

Skills

Strong operational experience with AWS

Proficient in written and oral English communication

Team player

Agile environment adaptation

Eager to learn

Education

Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Linux

MySQL

Bash

Python

Groovy

Ansible

Job description

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• At least 10 years in active Development roles.
• Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.
• Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
• Professional, Self-motivated attitude.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Responsibilities

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
• Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.
• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.
• Proactively improve products, systems and processes.
• Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.
• Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.

Tools/Tech

• Debian/Ubuntu
• Docker/Terraform/Ansible
• Fargate ECS & EKS/RDS Aurora
• Laravel/PHP/MySQL/Elasticsearch based web application
• .NET Core/MSSQL/Elasticsearch based web application