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DVT is one of the top software development companies on the continent. Our software engineers are consulting on cutting edge applications at top companies in South Africa, as well as consulting globally. You will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most established developers in the country and globally with the latest technologies.
DVT is committed to continuously training our staff and we are very proud of our culture of learning, internal speaking and training at a variety of sponsored technical events across the Azure ecosystem.
We are looking for a Azure Platform Engineer to join our cloud team.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the smooth integration and deployment of applications, improve efficiency through automation, and implement best practices for continuous integration and delivery.
This is a client-facing consulting role where you will engage directly with enterprise clients across financial services, telecommunications, government, and other sectors. You will provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and drive the adoption of best practices.
The ideal candidate is a problem solver with a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving innovation in cloud infrastructure.
Role Summary
Own the production Kubernetes platform end-to-end; reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience. Create and maintain the Azure DevOps build and deployment pipelines. This is a hands-on engineering role actively developing and executing infrastructure as code scripts working in development, user testing, and production environments.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Platform Ownership
Manage and upgrade production K8s clusters; enforce resource quotas, RBAC, and namespace policies
Own cluster autoscaling, node pool configuration, and capacity planning
Manage workloads and cluster lifecycle via Rancher; maintain multi-cluster visibility and access control
Own Helm chart library — versioning, releases, and values management across environments
Reliability & Uptime
Define and track SLOs/SLIs for critical services
Own on-call rotation; lead incident response and post-mortems
Proactively identify and eliminate single points of failure
Observability
Maintain and improve the monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or equivalent)
Build and tune alerting rules; reduce alert noise•
Ensure distributed tracing is in place for key services
Pipeline & Delivery
Maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; enforce security scanning and policy gates
Partner with dev teams to unblock delivery without compromising stability
Cost & Efficiency
Right-size workloads; identify and eliminate waste
Report on infrastructure spend with actionable optimisation recommendations
Required Experience and Skills
Must-have
4+ years in infrastructure/platform/SRE roles
Production-grade K8s experience (CKA preferred or equivalent depth)
Strong Terraform; remote state, modules, CI-driven apply on Azure
Proficiency in at least one scripting/systems language: Go, Python, or Bash
Hands-on incident response experience — you've been on-call, you've done post-mortems
Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, ingress controllers, service mesh basics
Linux administration fluency
Advantageous
Rancher (multi-cluster management, RBAC, catalog apps)
Helm chart authoring and release management
Autoscaler
Azure (AKS, networking, Key Vault, storage)
Secrets management: Azure Key Vault or Vault
Experience setting up or maturing an observability stack from scratch
Windows server experience
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