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The Kandua Company helps small service businesses grow. We connect them to new customers and we take the sweat out of business management with easy to use tech tools. Kandua.com is South Africa’s #1 online marketplace for home services. Every month, over 40 000 vetted home service pros have access to around R50 million worth of work opportunities from individual customers, and access to business customers through Kandua’s partnerships with leaders in insurance and retail.

The Kandua for Pros app puts a head office in the palm of every pro’s hand: send professional quotes and invoices, accept card and online payments, keep track of customer communication, and get visibility of business performance, all from a mobile phone, and all safely stored in the cloud. Our mission is to use tech to shorten the distance between having a skill and making a living from it: helping the people who help us every day.

What does this role involve?

As a Platform/DevOps Engineer , you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of Kandua’s cloud infrastructure. You will drive security improvements, CI/CD automation, and cloud operations to create a scalable and efficient environment for our engineering team. Your work will ensure that our software development processes are fast, smooth, and secure.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
• Security & Compliance: Enhance system security, implement best practices for infrastructure security, and ensure compliance with industry standards. As we explore new opportunities in the FinTech territory, we aim to improve and be the best in security and compliance to support this expansion.
• CI/CD & Automation: Define, implement, and scale CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) across the organization to streamline deployments and ensure reliable releases. We currently use GitHub Actions but need to improve its implementation and scalability within the company.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and define our future infrastructure strategy by evaluating the best tools for automation and management. We are currently exploring options such as Terraform, Pulumi, and others to determine the best fit for our needs.
• Monitoring & Incident Management: Implement and optimize observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver, Datadog) to ensure system health, logging, and alerting. You will participate in an on-call rotation to quickly address critical infrastructure and application incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring rapid resolution.
• Performance & Reliability: Optimize application and infrastructure performance to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Collaboration & Support: Work closely with development teams to understand their needs, gather feedback, and continuously improve the platform to enhance developer productivity. Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and provide guidance on best practices for cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Tooling & Automation: Identify bottlenecks in development workflows and implement automation to make development and deployment smoother.
• Disaster Recovery & Backup: Implement and maintain robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• FinOps & Cost Optimization: Continuously monitor cloud spending and implement cost-saving strategies. Optimize resource allocation, right-size instances, and leverage committed use discounts to ensure efficiency without compromising performance.
  

• 6+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform, or Cloud Engineering role.
• Strong experience with the public cloud.
• Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines .
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration.
• Experience with security best practices, IAM policies, and vulnerability management.
• Strong scripting skills.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog .
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security best practices.
• Experience with incident response and troubleshooting production issues .
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  

• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency with a IaC platform such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience with serverless architectures (Cloud Functions, Firebase, etc.).
• Exposure to SQL and database administration (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Firestore).
• Experience with SOC 2, PCI, NIST or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience optimizing cloud costs and resource utilization.
• Prior experience working in a startup or fast-paced environment.
  

• Be part of a fast-growing startup that is solving a real problem in South Africa.
• Work in a remote-friendly environment with a talented team.
• Opportunity to own and shape the DevOps culture and practices.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and best practices.

Electrum Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Electrum Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Electrum is the next-generation payments technology company that provides cloud-native software to optimize the processing of financial transactions. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected payments technology partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted enterprise-grade payments solutions.

We've built a reputation in providing solutions for high-volume, low-value payment schemes and services that enable our clients to deliver to their customers at scale. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans daily, making a real difference.

We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression.

The Role

Are you passionate about building the foundational infrastructure that powers modern software development? Electrum is seeking a Platforms Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that support the development, deployment, and operation of applications across the organization. In this role, you'll enable engineering teams by automating infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability and performance. You'll play a key role in driving Platform Engineering best practices, improving developer productivity, and fostering operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling. If you thrive in complex environments and are motivated by the opportunity to create impact at scale, we'd love to connect with you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 4+ years relevant work experience working as a Developer in a software development team building/running Java or C# applications
• 2+ years experience deploying, managing and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources and underlying infrastructure
• 2+ years experience designing & operating public cloud environments
• Experience using GitOps / CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments
  
  

• Experience in Agile / Scrum methodologies
• An understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  
  

• Kubernetes & Containerisation: Using Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD to build & deploy & manage containerised workloads
• Monitoring and Logging: Using tooling such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads
• Source Control & CI/CD: Making use of GitHub & Github Actions for version control & CI/CD
• Operating Systems: Making use of Ansible and shell scripting to configure & manage unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
• Building, Collaboration & Communicating the IDP: Strong communication skills within a team environment with an ability to effectively document processes and mentor engineers on best practices and platform use
• A Grasp of Backend Development: Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend services using Java, and experience in writing scripts to solve ad-hoc problems
• Cloud Infrastructure: An intermediate understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Infrastructure as Code (AWS & Terraform): Experience using the AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure
• Architecture and Design Patterns: Familiarity with common design patterns and architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture
• Computer Networking: Knowledge/experience of core networking concepts, i.e. configuring computer networking policies, ip allocations, routing, dns, preferably with experience with AWS networking, i.e. VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, VPC PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, Load Balancing etc.
• Database Management: Expertise in designing, optimising, and maintaining relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), including experience with event pipelining, i.e. using Apache Kafka
  
  
  

• Flexibility around core working hours
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• Team socialising, getaways, and social outings
  
  

• Tell everyone about it
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• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Electrum is the next-generation payments technology company that provides cloud-native software to optimize the processing of financial transactions. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected payments technology partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted enterprise-grade payments solutions.

We’ve built a reputation in providing solutions for high-volume, low-value payment schemes and services that enable our clients to deliver to their customers at scale. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans daily, making a real difference.

We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression.

Are you passionate about building the foundational infrastructure that powers modern software development? Electrum is seeking a Platforms Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that support the development, deployment, and operation of applications across the organization. In this role, you'll enable engineering teams by automating infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability and performance. You'll play a key role in driving Platform Engineering best practices, improving developer productivity, and fostering operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling. If you thrive in complex environments and are motivated by the opportunity to create impact at scale, we’d love to connect with you.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 4+ years relevant work experience working as a Developer in a software development team building/running Java or C# applications.
• 2+ years experience deploying, managing and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources and underlying infrastructure.
• 2+ years experience designing & operating public cloud environments
• Experience using GitOps / CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.

• Experience in Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• An understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Kubernetes & Containerisation: Using Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD to build & deploy & manage containerised workloads.
• Monitoring and Logging: Using tooling such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.
• Source Control & CI/CD: Making use of GitHub & Github Actions for version control & CI/CD.
• Operating Systems: Making use of Ansible and shell scripting to configure & manage unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
• Building, Collaboration & Communicating the IDP: Strong communication skills within a team environment with an ability to effectively document processes and mentor engineers on best practices and platform use.
• A Grasp of Backend Development: Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend services using Java, and experience in writing scripts to solve ad-hoc problems.
• Cloud Infrastructure: An intermediate understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Infrastructure as Code (AWS & Terraform): Experience using the AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.
• Architecture and Design Patterns: Familiarity with common design patterns and architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.
• Computer Networking: Knowledge/experience of core networking concepts, i.e. configuring computer networking policies, ip allocations, routing, dns, preferably with experience with AWS networking, i.e. VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, VPC PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, Load Balancing etc.
• Database Management: Expertise in designing, optimising, and maintaining relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), including experience with event pipelining, i.e. using Apache Kafka.

A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. To help you manage your own time and energy, Electrum offers benefits such as:

• Flexibility around core working hours
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• Team socialising, getaways, and social outings

We have created a safe, transparent environment where we know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:

1. Tell everyone about it
2. Fix the mistake
3. Tell everyone about it