Senior Platform Engineer Remote, Cape Town Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience. Requirements: Minimum of 8 years in active development roles. Experience with most of the technology used (as below), especially Terraform and Docker. Strong operational exposure with AWS, Linux and MySQL. KPAs: Developing and maintaining vertical, independent infrastructure, creating development pipelines, and managing software services while setting platform engineering standards across the group. Assisting in researching, prototyping (P.O.C.), and implementing new technologies or services for group-wide adoption. Managing and configuring various servers/instances using Docker, Terraform, and Ansible. Supporting the transition of legacy systems to Docker, ensuring all services eventually run on Docker. Developing scripts and automating tasks using Bash, Python, and Groovy. Reviewing and approving your peers' work as part of the software development lifecycle. Maintaining cloud infrastructure, primarily hosted on AWS. Ensuring the reliability of the CI/CD pipeline. Building independent web tools and microservices to streamline development workflows. Planning and implementing backup strategies, log rotations, and scaling solutions for large datasets. Staying updated on industry trends, new technologies, and best practices in DevOps and software development. Continuously enhancing products, systems, and processes. Delivering software and projects within agreed timelines. Demonstrating persistence and problem-solving skills to resolve complex software bugs. Tools & Technologies: Debian/Ubuntu Nginx Docker, Terraform, Ansible Fargate ECS & EKS, RDS Aurora Laravel, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch (web applications) .Net Core, MSSQL, Elasticsearch (web applications) Android, Java (mobile apps) Memcached, Redis, SQS Datadog, Pingdom, PagerDuty Jenkins GitHub AWS Cloudflare OKTA Apply now For more IT jobs, please visit If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions. For more information contact: Sanet Snooke Recruitment Consultant 012 348 7559