Senior Platform Engineer: AI‑Driven Cloud & API Ops

Job Description - Specialist Platform Engineer

Duration: 6 months

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng

Core technology stack:

Kubernetes / EKS / Security - Expert

Kong Konnect & APIOps - Expert

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform - Expert

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) - Expert

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) - Expert

GitOps (Argo CD / Flux) - Strong

Container Security (Trivy, Cosign, Falco, OPA/Kyverno) - Strong

Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, New Relic) - Strong

AWS (Primary), with AI/Bedrock exposure preferred

Job Description / Responsibilities:

Product & Service Direction, Design & Performance Management

• Define product and technical strategy in collaboration with the CIO and business product owners (end-to-end/full stack)
• Act as the primary interface with senior business stakehold...