Technical Lead - Platforms Engineering

Recruiter:

PartnerUp (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

4015963738

Date posted:

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

About the role:

As the Team Leader: Platform Engineering Delivery, you will be responsible for delivering resilient, scalable, secure, and high-performing platform infrastructure solutions for the Bank. You will provide technical leadership and best practices to a team of Platform Engineers, design and implement high-quality cloud infrastructure solutions, and establish a roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform. The team has built the internal developer platform for the Bank, and most of the product teams, if not all, are using this development platform to provision infrastructure. This includes teams across the entire organization, such as insurance, business banking, and retail.

Our ideal candidate has:

A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology - IT Engineering or Information Technology
At least 5 years in infrastructure, software development, DevOps, including design and implementation of highly available enterprise-scale developer platforms.
AWS Experience with hands-on troubleshooting experience on AWS platform, and working in a DevOps environment as well as working with Docker containers, with hands-on troubleshooting experience in Docker or Kubernetes
Microservices and CI/CD: Experience developing and supporting infrastructure for microservices-based architectures and working with CI/CD tools and scripting/provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
Monitoring and Logging: Experience setting up monitoring and logging tools for infrastructure and microservices.
Preferred: Experience in financial services or banking, infrastructure security, and working in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills:

Analytical Skills
Attention to Detail
Communications Skills
Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)
Problem solving skills

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