Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native Dev Platform Leader

DeARX; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

DeARX in Stellenbosch seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and scale a cloud-native Internal Developer Platform for 1,000+ engineers. You will automate infrastructure, build robust CI/CD pipelines and enforce security guardrails across AWS/EKS environments.

You will lead efforts on AI-enabled engineering practices, observability and platform reliability. A hands-on engineer with strong scripting and collaboration skills will thrive here.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and container orchestration, ideally EKS.
• Proven experience with IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalents.
• Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, GitOps and automated delivery practices.
• Programming/scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and optimise scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC.
• Build and enhance automated CI/CD pipelines for reliable software releases.
• Develop and evolve the Internal Developer Platform for self-service provisioning.
• Engineer Kubernetes-based platforms and container workloads in AWS/EKS.
• Implement GitOps and deployment automation for traceable releases.
• Establish automated security controls and governance across delivery lifecycle.
• Explore AI-enabled engineering capabilities within workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex infra issues and drive permanent resolutions.
• Contribute to architecture standards across cloud-native platforms.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

GitOps

Python/Go

Linux

Networking

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Amazon EKS

AWS CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

DeARX in Stellenbosch seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and scale a cloud-native Internal Developer Platform for 1,000+ engineers. You will automate infrastructure, build robust CI/CD pipelines and enforce security guardrails across AWS/EKS environments.

You will lead efforts on AI-enabled engineering practices, observability and platform reliability. A hands-on engineer with strong scripting and collaboration skills will thrive here.