Platform Engineer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITE008133/Mon

Date posted:

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:

Own the end-to-end production Kubernetes platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, observability, and an optimal developer experience. Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and deployment. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on developing and implementing infrastructure-as-code across development, testing, and production environments.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities: Platform Ownership Operate and upgrade K8s clusters (quotas, RBAC, namespaces) Own autoscaling, node pools, and capacity planning Manage clusters via Rancher (multi-cluster access & visibility) Maintain Helm charts (versioning, releases, env configs) Reliability & Uptime Define and track SLOs\/SLIs Lead on-call, incidents, and post-mortems Eliminate single points of failure Observability Maintain monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) Optimize alerting; reduce noise Ensure distributed tracing for key services Pipeline & Delivery Manage Azure DevOps CI\/CD with security gates Support dev teams while preserving stability Infrastructure as Code Manage Azure via Terraform Enforce DRY, version-controlled IaC (no drift) Cost & Efficiency Right-size workloads and reduce waste Report and optimize infrastructure spend Job Experience and skill required 4+ years experience in Infrastructure \/ platform \/ SRE roles Production-grade K8s experience Strong Terraform, remote state, modules, CI-driven apply on Azure Proficiency in in at least one Scripting \/ systems language: Go, Python, Bash Solid networking fundamentals: TCP\/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, Ingress controllers, service mesh basics Linux administration fluency Apply now! For more IT jobs, please visit \/> I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Development Data Engineer Data Analyst Infrastructure Architecture ... and more! If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information contact: Monica de Wet Senior Recruitment Consultant \/> 9905215721089

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