Senior Platform Engineer – Self-Service Cloud Native

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks a senior Platform Engineer in Cape Town to build scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities for engineering teams. You will apply deep AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, automation, and internal developer platforms to deliver cloud-native, reliable, highly available solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering, strong AWS hands-on experience, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm/Kustomize, and experience building self-service

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering building self-service platforms.
• 6+ years with Public Cloud, strong AWS hands-on experience.
• 6+ years of containerisation and container platforms.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps using ArgoCD / Flux and Helm/Kustomize.
• Experience with monitoring tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, X-Ray.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Automation

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Backstage

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks a senior Platform Engineer in Cape Town to build scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities for engineering teams. You will apply deep AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, automation, and internal developer platforms to deliver cloud-native, reliable, highly available solutions.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering, strong AWS hands-on experience, Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm/Kustomize, and experience building self-service