Job title : Client Engineering Platform Engineer
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : October 22, 2025
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Introduction
The Platform Engineer is responsible for driving IBM sales execution by ensuring pilot platforms are engineered to deliver customer technical and business outcomes and improve deployment of Client Engineering pilots. They work closely with other Client Engineering roles to deploy the foundation for comprehensive pilot solutions. Platform Engineers are experts at deploying solutions across Hybrid Cloud.Your role and responsibilities
Provide deep technical expertise in their area of focusAlign with industry standards with deep understanding across deployment automation techniques and technologyPossess a deep understanding of the Hybrid Cloud platforms (especially OpenShift platform, the hypervisorscloud providers on which it runs, and managed offerings : ROKS, ROSA & ARO)Demonstrate deep knowledge for deployment of watsonx and other IBM strategic software across the Hybrid Cloud using DevOps / MLOps practicesRequired education
Bachelor's DegreePreferred education
Bachelor's DegreeRequired technical and professional expertise
Deploy containerized applications especially into Kubernetes and troubleshoot deployments, advising clients on best practicesUnderstand / Advise on the widely adopted Public Cloud Offerings especially relating to (compute, networking, storage, security, etc.)Provide architectural assistance for platform related topics across the Hybrid Cloud On-Prem and in the Public CloudAdvise on best practices for DevOps / GitOps / MLOps and related platform automation toolsUnderstanding in tools for platform deployment and configuration management automation (Terraform, Ansible, ARM, etc.)Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)ICT jobs