Hands - on engineer designing, building, and maintaining core backend systems at MyFunded Futures. Leading technical architecture and mentoring the engineering team in a fintech environment.
About the role
- Platform Engineer designing and building internal developer platforms at Sanlam Fintech. Focused on creating self-service infrastructure abstractions and improving developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement self-service developer portals and golden paths that enable development teams to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, and manage services independently
- Build and maintain internal developer portal capabilities that provide service catalogues, documentation, and operational dashboards
- Create intuitive abstractions that hide infrastructure complexity while maintaining flexibility for diverse team requirements
- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and CloudFormation templates that encode organisational standards for AWS resources
- Design and implement serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and related services optimised for cost and performance
- Apply clean architecture principles and domain-driven design to platform component boundaries and infrastructure organisation
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions that enforce security scanning, quality gates, and deployment best practices
- Implement GitOps workflows and automated deployment strategies including blue-green and canary deployments
- Deploy, operate, and optimise Kubernetes clusters (EKS) and containerised workloads
- Develop Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and standardised deployment manifests for platform consumers
- Implement comprehensive observability using Datadog including custom dashboards, alerts, and SLO tracking
- Define and monitor platform SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure reliability standards are met
- Work across multiple diverse teams to identify optimisation opportunities and drive adoption of platform capabilities
- Collaborate with development teams to understand their needs and build appropriate abstractions that improve their workflows
- Maintain comprehensive documentation in Confluence and manage work effectively using Jira and the Atlassian suite
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering
- Demonstrated experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale
- Track record of improving developer productivity and implementing self-service capabilities
- Experience working across multiple teams to drive adoption of platform capabilities
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
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