Senior Platform Engineer: Self-Service Cloud & Automation

Momentum; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Momentum Corporate seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, automate and operate the shared engineering platforms enabling delivery teams. You will translate architecture into platform products and self-service capabilities, automating provisioning and deployments via IaC and GitOps.

You will lead platform efforts across CI/CD, cloud, Kubernetes, security and observability, mentoring engineers and improving developer experience while aligning with architectural standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS, IS, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years across software, cloud or platform engineering.
• 3+ years in a senior platform engineer role.
• Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience defining platform standards and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure and operate secure, reliable and reusable platform capabilities.
• Translate platform architecture into working platform products, automation and self-service services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment and operations using IaC and GitOps.
• Develop reusable templates, modules and platform components to reduce duplication.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

DevOps

SRE

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Momentum Corporate seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, automate and operate the shared engineering platforms enabling delivery teams. You will translate architecture into platform products and self-service capabilities, automating provisioning and deployments via IaC and GitOps.

You will lead platform efforts across CI/CD, cloud, Kubernetes, security and observability, mentoring engineers and improving developer experience while aligning with architectural standards.