Platform Engineer

About the role

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for managing and maintaining iLaunch's cloud platform across development, test and production environments. You will own the AWS ecosystem and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy, configure and maintain the platform in development, test and production.
• Own the AWS environment, including EKS, networking, IAM, and managed databases.
• Build infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Establish secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, backup and disaster‑recovery practices.
• Manage platform upgrades and support engineering teams with deployment patterns and production incidents.

Required profile

• Relevant IT qualification and certifications.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS) and infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Knowledge of cloud security, networking and IAM.
• Experience operating platform services such as PostgreSQL, Redis or Kafka.
• Ability to take full ownership while remaining technically involved.

Required skills

• AWS
• EKS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Helm
• CI/CD pipelines
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• Cloud security
• Networking