Senior Platform Engineer

Recruiter:

Six Sense Consulting

Job Ref:

SSC001024/MS

Date posted:

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Platform Engineer

POSITION INFO:
Qualifications:

BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields

Experience:

BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 years relevant working experience or Masters coupled with 7 years relevant working experience or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, large scale computing, high performance computing, private cloud and virtual computing (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes)
Experience with systems administration, provisioning of MAAS, preferably using Linux and open-source tools (such as Docker, Helm, Ansible)
Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).

Knowledge:

Proficient in C++ and Python programming languages.
Experienced in administering application servers, web servers and databases.
Experienced in integrated security practices such as secrets management into the DevOps pipelines, SSO, platform and application hardening.
Have some experience of line management.
Systems Engineering processes.
Willingness to transition between system development, roll-out and system support and operations

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