Platform Cloud Engineer - Johannesburg - R1m PA

E-Merge • johannesburg, gauteng • Posted June 24, 2026

About the Role

Are you a cloud engineering pro who thrives in highly scalable, containerised environments? We're looking for a Platform Cloud Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern DevOps practices to help build, optimise, and support cloud-native platforms powering enterprise-scale applications.

If you love automation, rock-solid infrastructure, and designing platforms the right way, this role is the perfect match.

What You Bring

  • Strong AWS experience across EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront
  • Solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks
  • Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) administration
  • Observability/monitoring skills: X-Ray, CloudWatch, OpenTracing, Grafana
  • Experience with CI/CD tools - AWS DevOps, Jenkins
  • Familiarity with cloud-native toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
  • Strong containerisation background
  • Programmin...