Platform Engineer (AWS, GitHub Actions, Heroku CI) (JHB)

Datafin • johannesburg, gauteng, South-Africa • Posted June 08, 2026

Location johannesburg, gauteng
Job Type Full-time
Category Software Architecture & Engineering
Posted June 08, 2026

Platform Engineer (AWS, GitHub 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, DigitalOcean, or similar, CI/CD pipelines: Hands‑on experience with GitHub Actions, Heroku CI, or equivalent; solid Git fundamentals and Monitoring & incident response: Experience with Sentry, Papertrail (or similar), logs, and uptime/performance dashboards.

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