Senior Platform Engineer (Crossplane & Backstage)

About the role

A senior-level Platform Engineering opportunity in Pretoria for an experienced engineer who has built scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities for engineering teams. The role focuses on reliable, scalable and cloud-native solutions, with deep expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation and internal developer platforms.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity, building self-service platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
• 2-3+ years of experience as a software engineer using Java, JavaScript, Golang or Python.
• 6+ years of hands-on public cloud experience, with strong AWS experience.
• 6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
• Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms made available for self-service consumption by engineering teams.

Required skills

• AWS cloud architecture and services, with knowledge of AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.
• Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices, including Terraform, CDK, Pulumi and Crossplane.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration; CKA certification preferable.
• GitOps practices with ArgoCD / Flux and Helm / Kustomize.
• Monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray.
• DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is non-negotiable.
• Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.