Senior Platform Engineering Lead

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Senior Platform Engineering Lead at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings. The position focuses on operating across a diverse technical landscape, including AWS cloud platforms and landing zones, GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling, the Backstage Developer Portal, Kubernetes and container platforms, Infrastructure as Code platforms, and observability platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana. It also involves Identity and Access Management platforms, API and Integration platforms, shared engineering services and platform products, and adherence to enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps. **What you will do** * Define and maintain the platform capability model. * Develop platform target architectures and roadmaps. * Identify technology opportunities and platform improvements. * Guide long-term platform investment decisions. * Support enterprise modernisation initiatives. * Improve developer productivity through platform capabilities. * Promote self-service engineering practices. * Lead Backstage adoption and evolution. * Support reusable engineering templates and golden paths. * Define measurable platform guardrails covering Security, Operational supportability, Deployability, Observability, Resilience, Compliance, and Cost management, focusing on automated enforcement wherever possible. * Provide architectural guidance to Platform Engineers. * Facilitate technical decision-making. * Mentor technical leads and engineers. * Lead platform architecture communities and forums. * Resolve cross-platform architectural concerns. * Partner with Production Engineering and SRE teams. * Improve platform resilience and operability. * Ensure observability standards are implemented. * Reduce operational toil through automation. * Accountable for Platform architecture strategy. * Accountable for Platform product ownership models. * Accountable for Platform guardrails and standards. * Accountable for Platform reference architectures. * Accountable for Cloud platform architectures. * Accountable for Developer platform architecture. * Accountable for Platform lifecycle management. * Accountable for Platform engineering technical leadership. * Accountable for Platform capability adoption. * Accountable for Platform reliability and resilience. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline. * 10+ years experience across software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering or architecture. * 3+ years experience in a senior platform architecture or platform engineering leadership role. * Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms. * Experience defining platform standards and engineering guardrails. * Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives. * Financial Services or Insurance industry experience (Preferred). * AWS certifications (Preferred). **Who should apply** The ideal candidate for this Senior Platform Engineering Lead role is an experienced professional with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and over a decade of experience in software, cloud, platform engineering, or architecture, including at least three years in a senior leadership capacity. They should have a proven track record in building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms, defining platform standards and engineering guardrails, and leading cross-functional technical initiatives. Experience in platform product management, cloud architecture, systems thinking, architecture leadership, engineering enablement, platform governance, stakeholder management, cost optimisation, security enablement, and DevOps/Platform Engineering practices is essential. While not mandatory, experience in the Financial Services or Insurance industry and AWS certifications would be advantageous. This role suits someone who can provide technical leadership, drive platform strategy, enhance developer experience, and ensure operational excellence across complex, modern technology stacks. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/senior-platform-engineering-lead-momentum-metropolitan-holdings-limited Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Git

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