Senior Platform Engineer (PTA)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria, South Africa, is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to design and deliver scalable, production-grade platforms and internal developer tooling for several engineering teams.

You will own AWS, Kubernetes and GitOps pipelines, build self-service capabilities, and ensure reliability, observability and security across cloud-native environments. The role requires hands-on cloud experience and a track record of delivering reusable platform abstractions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering building self-service platforms.
• 6+ years with Public Cloud, AWS hands-on experience.
• 6+ years with containerisation and container platforms.
• Strong Kubernetes GitOps experience with ArgoCD/Flux and Helm/Kustomize.
• Experience implementing monitoring/observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Solid DevOps practices and CI/CD using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
• Proven track record building production-grade platforms for self-service use.
• Hands-on Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage experience is non-negotiable.
• Proven Kubernetes Operators experience is non-negotiable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities.
• Implement and maintain GitOps pipelines and IaC tooling across teams.
• Ensure reliability, observability and security of cloud-native platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to promote reusable platform abstractions.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Platform APIs

IaC tooling

Kubernetes

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Monitoring/Observability

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Self-service platforms

Crossplane

Backstage

Kubernetes Operators

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

GitHub Actions

Job description

Pretoria, South Africa | Posted on 07/08/2026

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, including associated 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.