Platform Engineer/Cloud Engineer

Remuneration:	cost-to-company
Location:	Johannesburg
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Type:	Permanent
Company:	THE SKILLS MINE (PTY) LTD

Our client is looking for a platform/Cloud engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS

Requirements: 

• AWS associate level certification or substantial years of experience
• Preferred Kubernetes application developer certification or substantial years of experience
• Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS
• Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize
• Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Must have good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts:

• AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks
• Observability and Monitoring (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
• Kubernetes (EKS) experience
• DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
• Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
• Containerisation
• Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
• Linux experience
• Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities: 

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, networking, RBAC)
• Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
• Release management and oversite

 



 

Posted on 09 Apr 11:20, Closing date 9 May