Platfrom Engineer at Salt South Africa

Key Skills:

• AWS Services: EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
• Monitoring: Xray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana
• Kubernetes: EKS administration
• DevOps & CI/CD: AWS DevOps tools, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Cloud Native Tools: Helm, Kustomize
• Languages: Python, C#, Java, JavaScript
• Linux Expertise
• Distributed Systems Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Manage CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Oversee Kubernetes clusters (networking, security, RBAC)
• Enhance monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Lead release management and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Act as a trusted consultant, providing strategic advice and technical insights to clients

Consultancy & Client-Facing Skills:

• Lead discussions with clients, offer informed opinions, and challenge client perspectives when needed
• Communicate clearly and manage client expectations to keep projects on track
• Assertively ask tough questions and make decisions with confidence and professionalism

Requirements:

• AWS Associate-level certification or substantial experience
• Kubernetes certification or equivalent expertise
• Familiarity with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Strong communication, assertiveness, and leadership qualities in a client-facing environment
• Proven ability to build platform APIs, automation, and internal developer platforms