Lead Platform Engineer at Absa South Africa

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement the control plane of our application platform using Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain custom CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) and controllers to extend Kubernetes functionality for our platform.
• Utilise Golang to build Services, Controllers, and Crossplane Functions
• Ensure availability, and performance of the platform
• Automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes using CI/CD pipelines and GitOps principles.

Requirements:

• 5 - 8 years development experience - understanding how applications are built and run is essential.
• Strong experience in any typed programming language (Golang, Rust, C++, Java, C#, Typescript, etc)
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and running applications on Kubernetes. Experience running or deploying Kubernetes clusters themselves is not required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Ideal Certifications or experience:

• Experience with Golang development.
• Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux or related deployment tools.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• AWS certified Cloud practitioner or AWS Associate level certifications.