Senior Platform Engineer (JHB)

• AWS cloud architecture and services, with strong understanding of AWS best
  practices and the Well-Architected Framework.
  
• Building platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and/or internal developer
  platforms.
  
• Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices, including Terraform, CDK, Pulumi and
  Crossplane.
  
• Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes; CKA certification preferable.
  
• Cloud-native systems, distributed systems and service architectures, including
  associated design trade-offs.
  
• Building and operating scalable, secure and highly available platforms within AWS
  environments.
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity – building self-service
  platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
  
• 2 - 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java,
  JavaScript, Golang or Python.
  
• 6+ years of experience working with Public Cloud, with strong hands-on AWS
  experience.
  
• 6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
  
• Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux and
  Helm/Kustomize.
  
• Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools
  such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray.
  
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
  and GitLab CI/CD.
  
• Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms and making these
  available for self-service consumption by engineering teams.
  
• Hands-on experience with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is non
  negotiable.
  
• Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.