Senior Platform Engineer (CPT) (Crossplane & Backstage)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks a senior Platform Engineer in Cape Town to build scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities for engineering teams. You will apply deep AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, automation, and internal developer platforms to deliver cloud-native, reliable, highly available solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering, strong AWS hands-on experience, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm/Kustomize, and experience building self-service

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering building self-service platforms.
• 6+ years with Public Cloud, strong AWS hands-on experience.
• 6+ years of containerisation and container platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps using ArgoCD / Flux and Helm/Kustomize.
• Experience with monitoring tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, X-Ray.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Automation

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Backstage

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 21/10/2026

A senior-level Platform Engineering opportunity for an experienced engineer with astrong track record of building scalable, production-grade platforms and self-servicecapabilities for engineering teams. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise acrossAWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation and internaldeveloper platforms, with a strong focus on building reliable, scalable and cloudnative solutions.

Expert Knowledge

• AWS cloud architecture and services, with strong understanding of AWS bestpractices and the Well-Architected Framework.
• Building platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and/or internal developerplatforms.
• Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices, including Terraform, CDK, Pulumi andCrossplane.
• Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes; CKA certification preferable.
• Cloud-native systems, distributed systems and service architectures, includingassociated design trade-offs.
• Building and operating scalable, secure and highly available platforms within AWSenvironments.
  

Requirements

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity – building self-serviceplatforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
  
• 6+ years of experience working with Public Cloud, with strong hands-on AWSexperience.
  
• 6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
  
• Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux andHelm/Kustomize.
  
• Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using toolssuch as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray.
  
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actionsand GitLab CI/CD.
  
• Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms and making theseavailable for self-service consumption by engineering teams.
  
• Hands-on experience with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is nonnegotiable.
  
• Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.