Platform Engineer

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.

• 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.

Beneficial Experience

Tooling / Stack

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

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 :

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