Deimos
51 - 200 employees
Cloud
Deimos is a cloud solutions provider that specializes in helping businesses securely navigate and optimize their cloud environments. Led by an experienced team of software architects, site reliability engineers, and security experts, Deimos offers a wide range of cloud services including cloud migrations, security assessments, and infrastructure modernization. The company works with all major public cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Huawei Cloud, aiming to tailor solutions to each client's unique needs. Deimos is particularly focused on cloud security and managed platforms, ensuring that security is an integral part of every project, and offers professional services to provide flexible, scalable cloud-native infrastructure management. With a strong presence across Africa, Deimos serves clients globally, providing the expertise needed to implement and maintain secure, efficient cloud systems.
Senior Platform Engineer
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🕒 May 20
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Deimos
51 - 200 employees
Cloud
Deimos is a cloud solutions provider that specializes in helping businesses securely navigate and optimize their cloud environments. Led by an experienced team of software architects, site reliability engineers, and security experts, Deimos offers a wide range of cloud services including cloud migrations, security assessments, and infrastructure modernization. The company works with all major public cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Huawei Cloud, aiming to tailor solutions to each client's unique needs. Deimos is particularly focused on cloud security and managed platforms, ensuring that security is an integral part of every project, and offers professional services to provide flexible, scalable cloud-native infrastructure management. With a strong presence across Africa, Deimos serves clients globally, providing the expertise needed to implement and maintain secure, efficient cloud systems.
📋 Description
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms. • Treat cloud infrastructure as a product and internal developers as customers. • Build self-service tooling, automated guardrails, and platform experience for engineers. • Automate infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and performance. • Drive Platform Engineering best practices, improve developer productivity, and foster operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling. • Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads. • Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor resources. • Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD. • Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments. • Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems. • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices. • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to manage infrastructure. • Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, EDA, distributed computing architecture. • Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, etc. • Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Kafka. • Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain tooling that reduces cognitive load for product teams.
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. • 4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications. • 2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure. • 2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments. • Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments. • A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale. • Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
🏖️ Benefits
• Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely. • Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours. • A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement. • A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home. • A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on. • Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings. • We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!
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