Senior Platform Engineer: Crossplane & Backstage

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria seeks a senior Platform Engineer to design and deliver scalable, production-grade platforms that empower engineering teams with self-service capabilities using cloud-native patterns.

The role emphasizes AWS/Kubernetes expertise, infrastructure as code with Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, and robust CI/CD pipelines via ArgoCD/Flux, Helm, and Backstage to accelerate developer productivity and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity – building self-service platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
• 2 - 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java, JavaScript, Golang or Python.
• 6+ years of experience working with Public Cloud, with strong hands-on AWS experience.
• 6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable, secure, highly available platforms within AWS environments.
• Deliver self-service capabilities for engineering teams via internal developer platforms.
• Implement and advance GitOps, IaC, and CI/CD practices to improve reliability and velocity.

Skills

AWS cloud expertise

Self-service platform development

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

Cloud native design

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

Crossplane

Backstage

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria seeks a senior Platform Engineer to design and deliver scalable, production-grade platforms that empower engineering teams with self-service capabilities using cloud-native patterns.

The role emphasizes AWS/Kubernetes expertise, infrastructure as code with Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, and robust CI/CD pipelines via ArgoCD/Flux, Helm, and Backstage to accelerate developer productivity and reliability.