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🥝 Lead Platform Engineer

Boardroom Appointments | sandton, South-Africa | Posted June 05, 2026

Job Description

Qualifications

  • 5 - 8 years development experience - understanding how applications are built and run is essential
  • Strong experience in any typed programming language (Golang, Rust, C++, Java, C#, Typescript, etc)
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and running applications on Kubernetes
  • Experiencerunning or deploying Kubernetes clusters themselves is not required
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement the control plane of our application platform using Kubernetes
  • Develop and maintain custom CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) and controllers to extend Kubernetes functionality for our platform
  • Utilise Golang to build Services, Controllers, and Crossplane Functions
  • Ensure availability, and performance of the platform
  • Automate deployment, monitoring, and management...

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