2025-04-15

Job Description:

The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the stability and responsiveness of the platform via implementation of optimisation, monitoring and alerting mechanisms reducing production incidents and reducing mean time to recover of both the public and private cloud environments.

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Job Responsibilities:

• This role will be working closely with DEVOPS Management, QA, and Systems Engineers to understand the solution requirements in order to support and operate accordingly.
• The role trend analysis identifying recurring issues and root causes while implementing preventative measures or mechanisms to identify issues faster.
• The role is responsible for KPI management via building platforms that supports and ensures mandates of uptime, latency, resilience and security are met and are consistently above mandated levels.
• The role is responsible in ensuring that cluster level monitoring and alerting are up to date and has a wide coverage to identify issues faster and prevent outages.
• The role is responsible for building platforms while optimising capacity and infrastructure ensuring ample infrastructure headroom, tuning of services, appropriate auto-scaling and cost monitoring preventing bill shock.
• The role is responsible for building, enforcing and optimising the CICD pipeline rules and governance in order to increase quality and faster time to market.
• The role is responsible for the migration to new technologies and obsolescence of existing systems and tools.

Job Requirements:

• Infrastructure management and configuration management tools, e.g. Kube admin and Putty.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and client-server communication.
• Highly effective planning and prioritisation skills.
• Public and private cloud IaaS and PaaS deployment models and technologies, e.g. AWS, OpenStack and Azure.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand issues and manage solutions.
• Production-readiness assessment of modules and supporting systems.
• Strong relationship building, persuasion and collaboration skills that enables the coordination of activities between technical teams and the creation of new relationships with new acquaintances quickly and confidently.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to apply, work with and train delivery roles in adopting latest CICD and Software engineering principles.
• Database technologies – RDBMS e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
• Platform setup and support experience using APM, Monitoring and Alerting tools e.g. e.g. Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Grafana.

Job Details:

Company: Old Mutual

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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