Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable, containerised environments? We’re looking for a Platform Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices to help build, optimise, and support cloud-native platforms powering enterprise-scale applications.
If you love automation, rock-solid infrastructure, and designing platforms the right way, this role is the perfect match.
What You Bring
- Strong AWS experience across EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
- Solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks
- Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) administration
- Observability/monitoring skills: X-Ray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana
- Experience with CI/CD tools – AWS DevOps, Jenkins
- Familiarity with cloud-native toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
- Strong containerisation background
- Programming experience in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
- Solid Linux competency
Your Responsibilities
- Manage and build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Own Kubernetes administration: ingress, networking, RBAC
- Enhance observability and monitoring (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, alerting)
- Use IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane
- Oversee release management and deployment best practices
Skills & Experience We Value
- AWS Associate certification or extensive AWS experience
- Kubernetes Application Developer certification or equivalent practical exposure
- Strong Kubernetes admin skills
- Solid hands-on experience with Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK
- GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)
- Monitoring experience: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
Reference Number: GZ60876
This is a permanent role, based in Johannesburg, offering a CTC of R1m per annum, negotiable based on experience and ability.
Interested?
📩 Email Garth at garthz@e-merge.co.za
📞 Call 011 463 3633
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