Senior Platform Engineer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating the foundational platform services that underpin the bank’s digital infrastructure. This role focuses on driving automation, reliability, security, and operational efficiency across the bank’s cloud-native estate. Working at the intersection of DevOps, cloud engineering, and infrastructure automation, the successful candidate will help accelerate delivery while ensuring high standards of performance, compliance, and resilience.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Platform Architecture & Engineering:

• Design and implement robust, scalable platform services to support banking workloads across development, testing, and production environments.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Champion automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and change management using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation.

DevOps & CI/CD Enablement:

• Build and maintain secure and scalable CI/CD pipelines to support agile delivery, automated testing, and seamless deployments across environments.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration:

• Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring workload scalability, service reliability, and secure containerized operations.

Observability & Incident Management:

• Instrument platform components with monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities; integrate with tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and PagerDuty for proactive alerting and automated remediation.

Security & Governance:

• Implement security controls, secrets management, and audit mechanisms across the platform, supporting compliance with financial regulations and internal governance standards.

FinOps & Cost Optimization:

• Monitor infrastructure usage, allocate cloud spend efficiently, and collaborate on FinOps strategies to manage cost-performance tradeoffs.

Operational Resilience:

• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, automated failover, and resilience testing for critical banking services.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration:

• Share best practices, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to reusable patterns, platform standards, and technical documentation.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Professional certifications in AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), and/or Terraform are advantageous

Experience:

• 6+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles within cloud-native environments.
• Hands-on experience building and automating infrastructure on AWS or other public cloud providers.
• Proven track record in CI/CD implementation using GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar tooling.
• Deep understanding of containerization technologies and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Experience supporting observability and incident response frameworks in production environments.
• Exposure to regulated industries (e.g., banking, fintech, insurance) is preferred.

Technical Skills:

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• CI/CD automation (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux)
• Kubernetes, Helm, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
• Programming/scripting (Python, Go, Bash)
• Monitoring/logging (Datadog, ELK, Prometheus, Loki)
• Security automation, policy-as-code, and compliance tooling

Skills

• Action Planning, Application Development, Business Process Design, Computer Literacy, Data Management, Data Modeling, Evaluating Information, Identifying Customer Needs, Information Technology (IT) Support, Market Analysis, Oral Communications, Product Development, Technical Support, Technical Troubleshooting, Test Case Management, User Requirements Documentation, Web Development

Competencies

• Business Insight
• Collaborates
• Courage
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality
• Drives Results
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity

Education

• Bachelor of Computer Science (BCoSc)

Closing Date

• 23 April 2025 , 23:59