Platform Engineer
Recruiter:
Six Sense Consulting
Job Ref:
SSC001154/MS
Date posted:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Location:
Cape Town, South Africa
Salary:
Annually
SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Platform Engineer
POSITION INFO:
Qualifications:
- National Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 7 years experience, OR
- BTech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 6 years experience
- BENG/MTech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 4 years experience
- MENG in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 3 years experience
- PHD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualifications coupled with 1 years experience.
Experience:
- 2+ years demonstrated technical hands-on experience in infrastructure automation, distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, container orchestration orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), DevOps/SRE practices and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience working in teams or initiatives that intersect with data platforms, storage, networking, and systems engineering domains.
- Experience of platform engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, observability stacks, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Exposure to DevOps and SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and resilience engineering.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of software systems architecture, microservices, service meshes, and distributed system design.
- Familiarity with networking and security in cloud or containerized environments,
- Understanding of storage systems (object, block, distributed), data lifecycle management, and backup strategies.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and cross-functional team delivery processes.
- Exposure to control systems, data acquisition, or scientific computing platforms is advantageous.
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