Cape Town City Centre: IT Security Platform Engineer

Key responsibilities: Ensure uptime, stability, and incident resolution of our current production SIEM/SOC/IR/Observability systems This includes sysadmin functions like resource and capacity management Our customer SIEM tenants are backed by an SLA with punitive measures, ensuring the uptime SLA is met is critical to our business Use your AWS & Linux experience to improve architecture Manage the lifecycle of SIEM infrastructure and applications, including provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrading. Provide L1 and L2 support relating to SIEM Infrastructure and Applications. Perform after-hours break fix support for the platform should a production instance be affected Ensure that these occurrences are an absolute fringe-case Maintain our current IaC and deployment code Develop and implement new CICD pipelines to: Scan all containers for vulnerabilities Securely and reliably deploy code with no interruption Improve automation across the board to make sure you are spending less time fixing broken things or deploying, but rather building new features/rules/enhancements for our customers security posture Document, plan and migrate our current SIEM & SOC applications to EKS or similar Document, plan and implement new SIEM/SOC tools (or improve existing ones) and architect new automations Own the current DR plan, review and ensure we can commit to the SLA uptime we have promised our customers, identifying risks or proposing new architecture to suit the environment Apply your industry knowledge to improve our service offering and mentor junior resources Increase/improve the security controls of our platform Skills & Experience Proven experience running and supporting production SIEM/SOC/IR/observability platforms with strict uptime/SLA requirements Strong Linux systems administration: performance/capacity management, patching/upgrades, troubleshooting, incident response Strong AWS experience with a track record of improving architecture for reliability, scale, and cost efficiency Infrastructure lifecycle management: provisioning, scaling, hardening, maintenance, and upgrade planning Hands-on L1/L2 operational support capability, including after-hours break-fix for production incidents IaC and deployment automation experience (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation) and maintaining existing codebases CI/CD engineering to enable secure, reliable, low/no-downtime deployments Container and platform security practices: vulnerability scanning, remediation workflows, and security control improvements Kubernetes/EKS experience (or proven migration planning) including documentation, planning, and execution DR ownership: DR planning/testing, risk identification, and ensuring SLA commitments are achievable Ability to mentor junior engineers and drive continuous improvement through automation and best practice Qualifications Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) AWS certification (one or more): Cloud Practitioner / Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional) / SysOps Administrator / DevOps Engineer Kubernetes certification (preferred): CKA/CKAD and/or AWS EKSfocused certification/training Linux certification (advantage): RHCSA/RHCE, LPIC, or equivalent DevOps/SRE or security-related certifications (advantage): Terraform, Docker, ITIL, Security (or similar)