Senior Platform Engineer – Azure Data & Telemetry

Travelbyinvestec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Channel Data & Insights (CDI) team within the Client Experience Technology division. The role blends platform engineering with software and data platform work to deliver scalable telemetry, data contracts and AI-enabled automation.

You will design, build and operate Azure-based platforms, APIs and data products, driving governance, observability and reusable engineering patterns across channels and products.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform or related engineering domains.
• Experience with Azure-based production platforms and services.
• Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures, telemetry and observability.
• Ability to translate requirements into secure, scalable engineering solutions.
• Familiarity with Terraform, IaC and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate CDI telemetry collection and ingress capabilities.
• Support measurement standards and data contracts for consistent experience measurement.
• Build validation, conformance and quality monitoring controls.
• Design, automate and operate secure Azure platform services using IaC and CI/CD.
• Develop secure APIs and integration patterns with enterprise security and event-driven patterns.
• Support governed data foundation including Databricks and Fabric enablement.
• Implement monitoring, dashboards and reliability practices for production platforms.
• Create playbooks, references and templates to enable self-service adoption.
• Apply responsible AI practices to improve engineering productivity and consistency.

Skills

Platform engineering

Azure cloud

Telemetry engineering

API-driven architecture

Data quality controls

C# / .NET

IaC / Terraform

Tools

Azure API Management

Event Hubs

Azure Functions

Container Apps

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Databricks

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Azure Monitor

Job description

Investec is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Channel Data & Insights (CDI) team within the Client Experience Technology division. The role blends platform engineering with software and data platform work to deliver scalable telemetry, data contracts and AI-enabled automation.

You will design, build and operate Azure-based platforms, APIs and data products, driving governance, observability and reusable engineering patterns across channels and products.