Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Powered Backend & DevOps

Startup Club Za; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900.000 - 1.500.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Awareness Company in Fourways, Johannesburg, Gauteng, is seeking a deeply technical Platform Engineer to own the backend and infrastructure heart of HYDRA, the AI-powered platform powering Africa-wide operations. You will lead migrations to the next-generation platform, ensuring fast, reliable, multi-tenant performance.

You will work AI-first with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot, partnering with the CTO on architecture, and driving CI/CD, observability, and scalable cloud

Qualifikationen

• Senior backend platform experience with strong DevOps background.
• Proven ability to own data platform, services, and deployment infrastructure.
• Experience migrating customers to next-generation platforms.

Aufgaben

• Own HYDRA's backend platform end-to-end, including core services and data layer.
• Build and run CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability.
• Set technical standards and maintain runbooks/docs for the team.

Kenntnisse

NET

C#

DevOps

SQL Server

AI tools

hand-on

AI coding tools

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Copilot

Jobbeschreibung

The Awareness Company in Fourways, Johannesburg, Gauteng, is seeking a deeply technical Platform Engineer to own the backend and infrastructure heart of HYDRA, the AI-powered platform powering Africa-wide operations. You will lead migrations to the next-generation platform, ensuring fast, reliable, multi-tenant performance.

You will work AI-first with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot, partnering with the CTO on architecture, and driving CI/CD, observability, and scalable cloud