Senior Platform Engineer

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a highly technical Senior Platform Engineer at DeARX Services, working with their client in the financial services industry. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in transforming how software is built, secured, tested, and deployed across a large-scale engineering environment. The position involves contributing to the evolution of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that supports over 1,000 engineers, enabling faster, safer, and more consistent software delivery through automation, cloud-native technologies, and AI-enabled engineering practices. The focus is on removing engineering bottlenecks, enabling developer self-service, and introducing the necessary automation, security guardrails, and governance to accelerate delivery within a complex, business-critical environment. The engineer will design and implement scalable platform capabilities using technologies such as AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD to enhance developer productivity, enterprise security, operational resilience, and reliability. This opportunity is suited for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building innovative solutions, and guiding ideas from concept to production. **What you will do** * Design, implement and optimise scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code IaC, ensuring consistency, security and repeatability across environments. * Build and enhance automated CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, efficient and controlled software releases. * Develop and evolve the Internal Developer Platform, enabling engineering teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications through self-service capabilities. * Engineer and optimise Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads, particularly within AWS and Amazon EKS environments. * Implement GitOps practices and deployment automation to improve release consistency, traceability and operational control. * Establish automated security controls, governance mechanisms and platform guardrails across the software delivery lifecycle. * Explore and implement AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including workflows that support the safe and efficient delivery of AI-generated software. * Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, platform and distributed-system issues, leading root-cause investigations and driving permanent resolutions. * Contribute to technical architecture and engineering standards across cloud-native platforms, microservices and event-driven systems. * Improve platform observability, performance, scalability, availability and operational resilience. * Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes, simplify developer workflows and improve engineering productivity. * Provide technical guidance and mentorship, influencing platform engineering practices across multiple teams. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * At least 8 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering SRE or a related technical discipline. * Strong experience designing, implementing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably using AWS. * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, ideally Amazon EKS. * Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or equivalent. * Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar technologies. * Practical experience with Git, GitHub, GitOps and automated software delivery practices. * Strong scripting or programming capabilities using Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell or similar languages. * Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs and distributed systems. * A solid understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security controls, observability and production support. * Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues and improving the reliability and performance of production platforms. * The ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively with software engineering, architecture, security and infrastructure teams. **Who should apply** A highly technical, hands-on Senior Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building innovative solutions, and taking ideas from concept and proof of concept through to production. The ideal candidate is keen to influence platform engineering capabilities utilized by over 1,000 engineers, work with modern cloud-native technologies in a large-scale financial services environment, and contribute to the evolution of secure, automated, and AI-enabled software delivery. They should be focused on scalability, reliability, and developer experience, and capable of making a meaningful technical impact without the requirement for formal line management. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/senior-platform-engineer-dearx-services-pty-ltd Source: myjobmag

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• Python
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Git

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