Platform Operations Lead (AWS / Kubernetes / DevOps) (Johannesburg Hybrid) at Datafin Recruitment

In brief

**Overview** Datafin Recruitment, an IT recruitment solution established in 1999, is seeking a Platform Operations Lead for their client. The client develops next-generation banking technology, offering a white-labelled, cashflow-based business lending platform that enables banks to provide pre-approved, variable-repayment loans to SMEs through digital origination and real-time loan management. This role is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on building, automating, and managing the infrastructure and support capabilities underpinning the client's platform across multiple client environments. The responsibilities encompass cloud and container platforms, deployment automation, observability, operational reliability, incident response, and technical support. This is a Full Time, Hybrid position located in Johannesburg, Gauteng. **What you will do** * Build and maintain secure, repeatable AWS infrastructure across the core platform and independently deployed client environments. * Manage Kubernetes-based environments, including OpenShift and K3s, together with networking, ingress and supporting platform services. * Develop and maintain reusable CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, deployment configurations and Argo CD workflows. * Establish consistent release practices across development, QA, UAT and production environments. * Apply software development governance standards to significant infrastructure, deployment and platform changes. * Review application and platform changes for deployability, observability, security, recovery and support impact. * Ensure production changes include appropriate validation, rollback and recovery plans. * Maintain traceable technical evidence for platform changes, including requirements, approvals, test results, rollback considerations and release notes. * Maintain current architecture, deployment, environment and operational documentation. * Work with Engineering to ensure applications are deployable, observable and operationally supportable. * Automate repetitive infrastructure, deployment, environment-management and support activities. * Implement and maintain production monitoring, logging, health checks, alerting and operational dashboards. * Lead the investigation and resolution of infrastructure, deployment and platform-related incidents. * Establish support runbooks, incident procedures, escalation paths and handover practices. * Ensure incidents are properly triaged before being escalated to Engineering. * Build and mature the Platform Operations and Technical Support function as the international client base grows. * Mentor DevOps Support and Application/Production Support Engineers. * Participate in production support and on-call activities. * Support secure client deployments and controlled upgrades across independently managed banking environments. * Support SOC 2 compliance activities through Vanta, including control maintenance, evidence collection, remediation tracking and audit preparation. * Collaborate with the Head of Technology, Technical Architect and Engineering team to establish common infrastructure, deployment, security and operational standards. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Relevant degree, diploma or equivalent practical experience. * Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads on AWS or a comparable public cloud platform. * Practical experience with Docker and containerised environments. * Production experience with Kubernetes. * Exposure to OpenShift and K3s would be advantageous. * Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and GitOps workflows. * Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration-management practices. * Strong Linux, networking, DNS, TLS certificate, reverse proxy, ingress and application-connectivity knowledge. * Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting and incident response. * Experience supporting security controls, vulnerability remediation and compliance evidence would be advantageous. * Experience supporting regulated banking or financial services environments is strongly preferred. * Experience mentoring or leading Platform Operations, DevOps or Technical Support teams would be beneficial. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator who works effectively with developers, architects, and technical leadership. They should possess an automation-first and improvement-focused mindset, combined with excellent troubleshooting abilities across infrastructure, networking, containers, and deployment pipelines. Candidates must demonstrate sound technical judgment when balancing reliability, security, operational risk, and delivery requirements, and be capable of explaining the purpose, impact, risk, and recovery approach associated with platform changes. It is important for the candidate to remain calm, structured, and communicative during incidents, and to be comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements. Strong mentoring and technical leadership capabilities are required, along with accountability for reliability, security, confidentiality, and support quality. The candidate understands the distinction between platform operations, technical support, and application development and uses AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly within approved security and governance controls while remaining accountable for validating and documenting all resulting changes. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/platform-operations-lead-aws-kubernetes-devops-johannesburg-hybrid-datafin-recruitment Source: myjobmag

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