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Platform Engineer (FinOps & Infrastructure)

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2025-11-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Ensure highest levels of service, security, and availability for Vista Cloud and VMS offerings by managing hosted cloud environments, optimizing costs, and maintaining a mature security posture.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (FinOps & Infrastructure)

Builds

Hosted cloud environments (Containers, VMs, DB Pools, App Services) and security monitoring systems for Vista's global operations.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure (Azure/AWS) and FinOps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Azure or AWS administration, FinOps tools, Server Administration (MCSE/MCSA), Active Directory/DNS/DHCP, IP networking and enterprise architecture, firewalling and security compliance, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), DevOps pipelines

Preferred skills

Tertiary degree in business or technology, Azure or AWS Certification, experience with software design processes

Technologies

Azure, AWS, Containers, VM Scale Sets, DB Pools, App Services, IaC, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Firewalling

Responsibilities

Resize and re-scale cloud assets (Containers, VMs, DBs), delete unused assets and configure IaC templates, manage Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, monitor and manage orphaned Azure resources, lead response to security incidents and implement continuous improvement cycles, train internal support teams and act as escalation point for security events, provide technical advice on security remediations, conduct regular reviews of security posture and work quality, assist PMO with SoW scoping and technical reviews, create monthly reports on security state and maturity

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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