Senior Platform Engineer Lead

Psybergate (Pty) Ltd; Centurion; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Psybergate (Pty) Ltd is seeking a seasoned Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable cloud platform capabilities. You will translate architecture into self-service platform products and automation, enabling engineering teams to provision environments with minimal central support.

You will contribute to standardized CI/CD pipelines, observability, security controls and platform guardrails, mentoring engineers and collaborating with Architecture, Security and Production teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience across software, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years in a senior platform engineering role.
• Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.
• Experience developing reusable platform components, templates and modules.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, container platforms and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, and secure environment configurations.
• Experience implementing observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure and operate secure, reliable platform capabilities.
• Translate platform architecture into working platform products, automation and self-service services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
• Develop reusable templates, modules and platform components.
• Build and maintain developer self-service capabilities and service catalog integrations.
• Enable teams to provision environments and deploy applications with minimal central support.
• Improve developer experience by identifying delivery challenges and driving improvements.
• Maintain technical documentation and usage guidance for platform capabilities.
• Build standardised CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, quality controls and policy enforcement.
• Implement safe deployment patterns, environment promotion, rollback and recovery.
• Monitor platform capacity, performance, availability and cost; implement improvements.

Job description

What you will be doing:

• Design, build, configure and operate secure, reliable and reusable engineering platform capabilities.


• Translate approved platform architecture and engineering standards into working platform products, automation and self-service services.


• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment and operational activities using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.


• Develop reusable templates, modules and platform components to reduce duplication across engineering teams.


• Build and maintain developer self-service capabilities, engineering templates, service catalogue integrations and golden paths.


• Enable engineering teams to provision environments and deploy applications with minimal dependence on central teams.


• Work with engineering teams to identify delivery challenges and continuously improve the developer experience.


• Maintain technical documentation and usage guidance for platform capabilities.


• Build and maintain standardised CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.


• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, quality controls and policy enforcement into engineering workflows.


• Implement safe deployment patterns, environment promotion, rollback and recovery processes.


• Improve the repeatability, speed and reliability of software delivery.


• Engineer and operate cloud, container and Kubernetes platform capabilities.


• Implement secure cloud foundations, networking, identity, access and environment configurations in line with approved architecture.


• Monitor platform capacity, performance, availability and cost, and implement improvements where required.


• Maintain platform components through upgrades, patching and lifecycle management.


• Implement observability capabilities using standard logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerts.


• Define and implement platform service-level indicators and operational health measures.


• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis and the implementation of permanent corrective actions.


• Embed security controls, secrets management, access controls and compliance guardrails into platform capabilities.


• Reduce recurring operational tasks through automation and engineering improvements.


• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to platform engineers and delivery teams.


• Contribute to platform design decisions, technical reviews, engineering standards and the platform roadmap.


• Collaborate with Architecture, Software Engineering, Security and Production Management to ensure platform capabilities are usable, supportable and aligned with organisational standards.


• Evaluate new platform technologies through practical prototyping and evidence-based recommendations.


• Improve platform adoption, reduce manual requests and engineering effort, and enhance the reliability of shared engineering services.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline.


• 10+ years of experience across software engineering, cloud engineering or platform engineering.


• 3+ years of experience in a senior platform engineering role.


• Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.


• Experience defining platform standards and engineering guardrails.


• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.


• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.


• Experience developing reusable platform components, templates and modules.


• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.


• Experience with automated testing, security scanning and quality controls within software delivery workflows.


• Experience with cloud infrastructure, container platforms and Kubernetes.


• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, and secure environment configurations.


• Experience implementing observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerts.


• Experience monitoring platform performance, availability, capacity and cost.


• Knowledge of incident management, root-cause analysis and service reliability practices.


• Experience implementing secrets management, security controls and compliance guardrails.


• Understanding of deployment strategies, rollback procedures and recovery processes.


• Experience improving developer self-service capabilities and engineering experience.


• Ability to translate platform architecture and engineering standards into practical technical solutions.


• Strong technical problem-solving and automation skills.


• Experience providing technical guidance and mentoring to engineers.


• Ability to collaborate with architecture, software engineering, security and production teams.


• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.


• Ability to evaluate technologies and make evidence-based recommendations.

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote; however, candidates should reside within travelling distance of the client site, as the working arrangements may change depending on business requirements.