Platform / Cloud Engineer Full Time

Our client is looking for an experienced Platform / Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team focused on building, automating, and supporting modern cloud platforms. This opportunity is ideal for professionals passionate about Kubernetes, AWS, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and enabling high-performing development teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Build, maintain, and optimise cloud-native platforms hosted on AWS.
• Administer Kubernetes environments, including networking, ingress, and RBAC.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar technologies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Improve platform reliability through monitoring, observability, and automation.
• Support release management and deployment processes.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to enhance platform stability.
• Collaborate with development teams to build scalable internal platforms and tooling.

Requirements
• AWS Associate Certification or equivalent commercial experience.
• Strong experience with AWS services including EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and Fargate.
• Practical Kubernetes administration experience.
• Experience with Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or Flux.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDKs.
• Strong CI/CD experience using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring tools.
• Linux administration experience.
• Exposure to Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Submit your CV to it.jobs@mspstaffing.co.za or call 021 555 0432.
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Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 4 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.