Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native, Kubernetes & API Scale

Share; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Share is building a cloud-native marketplace for bandwidth, seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale infrastructure and drive reliable operations. You will own complex systems end-to-end, collaborating with network and software teams to push for better decisions and scalable solutions.

You should bring 7+ years of infrastructure experience, deep Kubernetes expertise, and strong cloud (GCP) know-how, plus a track record of production API design and AI-native tooling.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional systems/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Leadership mindset with ownership of outcomes.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise with production clusters.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred).
• Production Docker and container orchestration, virtualization tech.
• Production API design and management experience.
• Experience building AI-native workflows and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Scale and maintain cloud-native infrastructure to support marketplace growth.
• Lead and guide the team, catching issues before they become incidents.
• Collaborate with network and software teams to ensure reliability.
• Drive DevOps practices, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Leadership mindset

Kubernetes expertise

Cloud infrastructure (GCP)

Docker & orchestration

API design & management

AI integration experience

Production ownership

System/infrastructure engineering

Tools

Docker

VMware

KVM

Hyper-V

Job description

Share is building a cloud-native marketplace for bandwidth, seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale infrastructure and drive reliable operations. You will own complex systems end-to-end, collaborating with network and software teams to push for better decisions and scalable solutions.

You should bring 7+ years of infrastructure experience, deep Kubernetes expertise, and strong cloud (GCP) know-how, plus a track record of production API design and AI-native tooling.