Platform Engineer

Salary: R70 000 - R80 000 per month

Are you an experienced Infrastructure & Platform Engineer with strong AWS and hybrid infrastructure expertise?

We are looking for a hands-on engineer to take ownership of our cloud and on-premise infrastructure within a regulated, business-critical production environment. This is not a narrow DevOps or traditional systems administration role; you will be expected to investigate issues end-to-end, implement safe infrastructure changes, and continuously improve the reliability, security, and operational maturity of our environment.

What you’ll be doing

• Take ownership of infrastructure investigations and changes across a multi-account AWS environment.
• Validate live infrastructure states, gather evidence, and implement approved changes safely.
• Design and deliver infrastructure changes using Terraform or OpenTofu rather than manual console configuration.
• Build practical automation to improve operational checks, access reviews, and audit processes.
• Maintain and troubleshoot hybrid infrastructure, including datacenter connectivity, networking, virtualization, backups, and monitoring.
• Improve logging, security visibility, and audit readiness across the infrastructure estate.
• Maintain accurate infrastructure diagrams, inventories, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Work closely with internal teams and external vendors to drive technical actions through to completion.
• Support production environments where reliability, traceability, and controlled change are critical.

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated hands-on experience managing multi-account AWS environments.
• Strong experience delivering infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Solid networking fundamentals and the ability to troubleshoot across multiple infrastructure layers.
• Strong Linux and general infrastructure knowledge.
• Experience with Terraform and/or OpenTofu.
• Experience working with hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Exposure to security, logging, monitoring, and audit requirements.
• Experience working in regulated, highly available, or business-critical production environments is highly advantageous.
• Relevant AWS certifications would be beneficial.

The right person will be

• Highly accountable and willing to own technical issues through to complete resolution.
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
• Methodical and careful when dealing with production systems and infrastructure changes.
• Able to communicate effectively with engineers, management, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Calm and structured when handling incidents and complex technical problems.
• Practical, hands-on, and focused on implementing solutions rather than simply identifying problems.

If you are an AWS-focused infrastructure professional who enjoys taking genuine ownership of complex environments and improving how infrastructure is operated, documented, and secured, we would love to hear from you.