AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 08/10/2025

We are looking for a Platform / Cloud Engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS.

• AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, Cloud Front) and Well Architected Frameworks
• Observability and Monitoring (Xray, Cloud Watch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
• Dev Ops Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS Dev Ops Tools, Jenkins)
• Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
• Containerisation
• Distributed systems and architectures

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure Dev Ops)
• Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Crossplane)
• Release management and oversite
• SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring

• AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience
• Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
• Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation or CDKS
• Experience with Kubernetes Git Ops practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
• Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch
• Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/ or internal developer platforms