💼 Full-Time Position

Platform engineer (aws, github actions, heroku ci) (jhb)

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Datafin
📍 johannesburg, gauteng, South-Africa
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Location
johannesburg, South-Africa
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Posted
June 30, 2026
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Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Platform Engineer (AWS, Git Hub Actions, Heroku CI) (JHB)

IT - Software Development ~ IT - Infrastructure

Johannesburg - Gauteng - South Africa

Environment

A provider of cutting‑edge Financial Tools in Joburg seeks the technical expertise of a Platform Engineer to manage Heroku pipelines, CI/CD, review apps, and production environments. You will also operate Celery workers and queues, monitor health, and handle missed task check‑ins, manage Cloudflare for DNS, edge security, and performance optimisation & collaborate with Developers to streamline workflows and educate on secure coding practices. The ideal candidate must have 3+ years operating production apps on Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean, or similar, CI/CD pipelines: Hands‑on experience with Git Hub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent; solid Git fundamentals and Monitoring & incident response: Experience with Sentry, Papertrail (or similar), logs, and uptime/performance dashboards.

Duties Reliability & Operati...