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Platform Engineer

Cape Town💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design, deploy, and operate the shared infrastructure substrate (Kubernetes, VPCs, compute, storage, messaging) supporting 600+ product engineers.

Role type

Mid-level Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

Builds

Production-grade infrastructure abstractions, managed pub/sub systems, and cloud networking components.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Linux command line, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, Cloud computing concepts, Network engineering

Preferred skills

Terraform, Argo CD, Kafka, Pub/sub messaging systems

Technologies

Java, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Kafka

Responsibilities

Implement infrastructure abstractions translating high-level requests into IaC parameters; Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure including VPCs, compute pools, and storage; Own operation and maintenance of managed pub/sub messaging systems; Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules and provide feedback; Write production-quality Java code for infrastructure abstractions; Contribute to team infrastructure standards and operational runbooks

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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