Senior Platform Engineer:DevOps & Cloud at Sanlam Group

What will make you successful in this role?

Infrastructure Design and Management:

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Ensure the reliability and performance of the CI/CD pipelines, and continuously improve them based on feedback and new requirements

Monitoring and Incident Management:

• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the health and performance of the platform using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk
• Respond to and resolve incidents promptly, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures to avoid future occurrences

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and maintain security best practices across the infrastructure, including network security, identity and access management, and data encryption
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations through regular audits and assessments

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and provide solutions that enhance productivity and efficiency
• Document processes, configurations, and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing and maintain a comprehensive knowledge base
• Manage your tasks and time efficiently and communicate with stakeholders in a timeous fashion

Developer Experience

• Build toolsets to help Developers onboard rapidly and to improve their day to day tasks which will lead to a faster time to market
• Build/Deploy/Maintain an Internal developer Portal/Platform to provide a single pane of glass for all parties as well as to create ease of deployments for developers
• Reduce friction in the SDLC wherever possible
• Develop dashboard templates for developers so they can monitor their estate
• Ability to identify bottlenecks and develop end to end solutions to mitigate the bottlenecks

Qualifications

• Grade 12 / Matric
• A Valid Cloud Certification 
• Degree or Certificate in Computer Science beneficial
• At least 5 years' experience in architecting AWS / Azure 
• At least 5 years architecting, implementing and operating a hybrid cloud
• At least 3 years' experience in automation, optimization and configuration management (IaC)