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Lead platform engineer

LinuxRecruit
Location 📍 remote, South-Africa
Posted 📅 June 24, 2026
Work Type ⏰ Full-time

Position Overview

Locations

North East, North West, South East, South West

You won’t be coming in to manage someone else’s mess. You’ll be shaping how platforms are built, setting standards, making decisions that stick, and leading by example. You will be a Lead Platform Engineer and act as a senior technical voice across engagements, influencing platform strategy, design decisions, and engineering standards. You’ll run technical workshops and design reviews with both client stakeholders and engineering teams, helping move things forward in a practical, hands‑on way. The work itself is what you’d expect at this level: building secure‑by‑default multi‑cloud landing zones in AWS, developing Git Ops‑driven platforms, and creating internal developer platforms that give teams genuine self‑service. A big part of the role is modernising legacy systems, moving them towards cloud‑native architectures, improving reliability, and making them easier to operate. You will also drive cloud optimisation acr...

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Job Details

Employment Type
Full-time
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Category
Other-General
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Work Arrangement
On-site
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Location
remote, South-Africa