Location
johannesburg
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 24, 2026
Job Description
About the role
As a Platform Security Engineer, you build expertise in securing cloud‑native infrastructure, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and product services within the Platform Engineering organization. You take ownership of moderately complex security tasks with increasing autonomy while receiving guidance on architectural decisions and strategic direction. Your focus is the security posture of our platform and product infrastructure — the container orchestration layer, service mesh, observability stack, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure that engineering teams build and deploy on.
Responsibilities Implement and maintain security controls across the platform, including container orchestration security policies, network segmentation, role‑based access controls, and admission control mechanisms. Manage container image scanning and enforce image policies in CI/CD pipelines and cluster admission, ensuring only vetted and signed images reach production environmen...