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Platform Engineer
Metamorph · Johannesbourg et périphérie
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a highly capable Platform Engineer to join our growing technology team. The role focuses on building, automating, and optimizing enterprise‑grade platform capabilities, with a strong emphasis on observability, infrastructure as code, and cloud reliability.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise observability platforms, including Dynatrace configuration for APM, infrastructure monitoring, log analytics, RUM, synthetic monitoring, distributed tracing, and AI‑driven anomaly detection.
- Create observability standards, dashboards, alerts, and automated remediation workflows; define service health metrics, SLIs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, building reusable modules and templates for standardized cloud deployments.
- Automate provisioning and configuration of cloud infrastructure, networking, compute resources, and platform services across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Build scalable internal platform capabilities to improve developer productivity, including templatised infrastructure and observability frameworks.
- Collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, cloud, security, and architecture teams to support platform onboarding and drive reliability initiatives.
Required profile
- Strong software engineering or development background with experience in platform engineering.
- Proven experience in infrastructure automation, observability engineering, and cloud reliability.
- Ability to design reusable frameworks and mentor junior engineers.
Required skills
- Dynatrace (APM, infrastructure monitoring, log analytics, RUM, synthetic monitoring, distributed tracing).
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation.
- Observability standards, dashboards, alerts, and automated remediation.
- CI/CD integration and platform reliability concepts.
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Metamorph
Johannesbourg et périphérie