Johannesburg: Platform Cloud Engineer – Johannesburg – R1m PA posted by E-Merge

Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable, containerised environments? We’re looking for a Platform Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices to help build, optimise, and support cloud-native platforms powering enterprise-scale applications.

If you love automation, rock-solid infrastructure, and designing platforms the right way, this role is the perfect match.

What You Bring

• Strong AWS experience across EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
• Solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks
• Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) administration
• Observability/monitoring skills: X-Ray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana
• Experience with CI/CD tools – AWS DevOps, Jenkins
• Familiarity with cloud-native toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
• Strong containerisation background
• Programming experience in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
• Solid Linux competency

Your Responsibilities

• Manage and build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Own Kubernetes administration: ingress, networking, RBAC
• Enhance observability and monitoring (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, alerting)
• Use IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane
• Oversee release management and deployment best practices

Skills & Experience We Value

• AWS Associate certification or extensive AWS experience
• Kubernetes Application Developer certification or equivalent practical exposure
• Strong Kubernetes admin skills
• Solid hands-on experience with Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK
• GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)
• Monitoring experience: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Reference Number: GZ60876
This is a permanent role, based in Johannesburg, offering a CTC of R1m per annum, negotiable based on experience and ability.

Interested?
Email Garth at *****@*****.co.za
Call (***)***-****

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