Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native Platform Leader

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Johannesburg, South Africa, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and operate scalable, production-grade platforms that empower engineering teams.

You will shape cloud-native foundations, automation and internal developer platforms that improve reliability, speed and developer experience across the organisation. You will work with AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles while driving GitOps, CI/CD and platform extensibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering.
• 6+ years of public cloud experience with deep AWS expertise.
• 6+ years of containerisation and platform experience.
• CKA certification preferred.
• Strong GitOps experience with ArgoCD / Flux and Helm / Kustomize.
• Hands-on with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is expected.
• Proven ability to build production-grade platforms for self-service use.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build self-service platforms and platform APIs.
• Architect and operate scalable cloud-native platforms on AWS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, Crossplane.
• Build and operate Kubernetes environments with GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux, Helm, Kustomize).
• Develop Kubernetes Operators and enable platform extensibility.
• Implement monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, X-Ray.
• Drive CI/CD and DevOps with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework across platform design and operations.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve developer experience.

Skills

Platform engineering

AWS cloud

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Helm

Kustomize

Backstage

Pulumi

CDK

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

X-Ray

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

X-Ray

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Johannesburg, South Africa, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and operate scalable, production-grade platforms that empower engineering teams.

You will shape cloud-native foundations, automation and internal developer platforms that improve reliability, speed and developer experience across the organisation. You will work with AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles while driving GitOps, CI/CD and platform extensibility.