Platform Engineer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITA005704/Rein

Date posted:

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Our client is looking for a skilled Platform Engineer to join their high-performing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on modern cloud platforms, building scalable, resilient systems while collaborating with top-tier engineering talent.

POSITION INFO:
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building and supporting cloud-native platforms. You’ll work extensively with Kubernetes, containerised workloads and AWS, enabling development teams through robust platforms, automation and best-in-class tooling.

This role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced, engineering-led environment and enjoys solving complex, real-world problems.

What You’ll Be Doing

Building and maintaining scalable cloud platforms on AWS
Managing and administering Kubernetes environments (EKS)
Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, etc.)
Driving Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
Improving observability, monitoring and alerting (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs)
Supporting release management and deployment processes
Applying SRE practices such as automation, reliability and incident response
Developing internal developer platforms, APIs and tooling

Tech Stack & Experience

Cloud & AWS: EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
Kubernetes: Administration, networking, RBAC, container orchestration
CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTracing
Cloud-Native Tools: Helm, Kustomize
Programming: Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
Systems: Linux, distributed systems and architectures

What We’re Looking For

Proven experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments
Strong background building and supporting applications on AWS
Experience with GitOps practices and modern DevOps tooling
Exposure to internal developer platforms (e.g. Backstage) is advantageous
Experience building operators, controllers or Kubernetes-native automation
AWS certification (Associate level) or equivalent practical experience
Solid understanding of platform engineering and cloud-native design

The Environment

Collaborative, engineering-driven culture
Flat structure with real ownership and autonomy
Flexible, hybrid working model
Strong focus on learning, growth and knowledge sharing
Recognition for high performance and meaningful contributions

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Software Developers (Back-End, Front-End, Full Stack)
Mobile Developers
Business & Systems Analysts
BI & SQL Experts
UI/UX Professionals
Data Scientists & Data Analysts
Big Data Professionals
Cloud Experts
Infrastructure Specialists
DevOps & SecOps Engineers
Cybersecurity Specialists
SEO / Digital Designers

Please note: If you have not received feedback within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful. Your profile will remain in our database for future opportunities.

For more information, contact:
Reinie Du Preez
Senior Specialist Recruitment Consultant

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