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CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Location
Onsite (Cape Town, Western Cape)
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 2 weeks ago

About the role

CyberPro Consulting is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on implementing Infrastructure as Code, automating deployments, and supporting containerized applications using modern DevOps practices.

Skills

AWS Terraform CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Python Bash Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenSearch Linux Git Networking Cloud Security DevSecOps

Full job details

Platform Engineer – Open Source & AWS

Company: CyberPro Consulting

Role Overview

CyberPro Consulting is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer with strong expertise in AWS cloud services and open-source technologies to support the design, development, automation, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and reliable technology platforms.

The ideal candidate will have experience building and managing cloud-native environments, implementing Infrastructure as Code, automating deployments, and supporting containerised applications using modern DevOps practices and open-source tools.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.

  • Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.

  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment.

  • Manage containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Work with open-source technologies to build and support cloud-native platforms.

  • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance optimisation.

  • Apply security best practices across cloud infrastructure and platform services.

  • Support platform reliability, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.

  • Collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, and DevOps professionals.

  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues.

  • Promote automation, standardisation, and continuous improvement.

Essential Technical Skills

  • Strong experience with AWS cloud services.

  • Experience with Linux and open-source technologies.

  • Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.

  • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

  • Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Scripting using Python, Bash, or similar languages.

  • Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch.

  • Networking, security, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals.

  • Experience with Git and configuration management tools.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

  • Knowledge of cloud security and DevSecOps practices.

  • Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, and CloudWatch.

  • Experience with open-source platform engineering tools and technologies.

  • Experience working in Agile environments.