Senior Platform Engineer (PTA)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable, self-service platforms on AWS. The role focuses on building platform APIs, automation, IaC with Terraform, CDK, Pulumi and Crossplane, and advancing Kubernetes-based environments using GitOps practices with ArgoCD and Flux.

You will implement monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray, and drive DevOps with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD while developing Kubernetes

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering building self-service platforms

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Crossplane

Backstage

Operators

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Helm/Kustomize

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

X-Ray

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Pretoria, South Africa

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

• 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.