Intermediate Platform Engineer

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๐Ÿ“ South Africa
๐Ÿ“… Posted 2026-08-22 ยท via Himalayas
๐Ÿท Platform-Engineering,DevOps-Engineer,Cloud-Engineer,Infrastructure-Engineering,Site-Reliability-Engineering,Mid-Level-Platform-Engineer,Platform-Engineer
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Minimum requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.

- At least 3 to 5 years in active Development roles.

- Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.

- Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.

- Professional, Self-motivated attitude.

- Proficient in written and oral English communication.

- Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.

- Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.

- Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.

- Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises. ๏ปฟ

Responsibilities :๏ปฟ

- Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.

- Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.

- Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.

- Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.

- Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.

- Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.

- Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.

- Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.

- Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.

- Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.

- Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.

- Proactively improve products, systems and processes.

- Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.

- Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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