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AWS Platform Engineer (Development Experience/Background) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 23 Feb 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2633795 - Ref 878000016863313
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About the position

We are seeking a highly capable Platform / Cloud Engineer to join a fast-paced engineering environment focused on building, scaling, and optimizing cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in modern AWS ecosystems, has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, and is passionate about automation, reliability, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing, deploying, and supporting resilient, secure, and observable systems that empower development teams to deliver at scale.

RequirementsCandidates must have a 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 include:


  • 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
  • SRE practises such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring
Skills and Experience
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
  • Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/ or internal developer platforms


Desired Skills:

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Native
  • Devops
  • Python
  • Java
  • Linux.

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


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Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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