Platform Engineer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

BIT003349/Rein

Date posted:

Monday, September 2, 2024

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

SUMMARY:
An international software solutions company based in Johannesburg is recruiting for a Platform / Cloud Engineer with extensive experience in working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS.

POSITION INFO:
Services and/ or concepts:

AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
Observability and Monitoring (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
Kubernetes (EKS) experience
DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
Containerisation
Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
Linux experience
Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities include:

CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)
Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, networking, RBAC)
Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
Release management and oversite
SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring

Skills and Experience Requirements

AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS
Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/ or internal developer platforms

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