About the job
Storyteq is looking for a Platform Operations Engineer to join the team in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This position focuses on building and maintaining the infrastructure, automation, and tools that support Storyteq’s global platform. The role reports to the Head of Platform Operations and works closely with experienced engineers to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments.
Role overview
This is a hands-on engineering role. The Platform Operations Engineer helps improve the reliability, security, and performance of the company’s cloud infrastructure. The position also supports the development of internal platforms and productivity tools for engineering teams. Collaboration with other platform engineers is a key part of the job.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure across providers such as Azure, AWS, and GCP using established architectural patterns.
- Create, review, and enhance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform, ensuring all infrastructure is version-controlled, reproducible, and auditable.
- Oversee provisioning, configuration management, and the full lifecycle of environments for development, staging, and production.
- Contribute to infrastructure modernization projects in line with platform strategy.
- Apply GitOps principles for infrastructure and application deployments, using tools such as ArgoCD to maintain declarative and auditable workflows.
- Support platform availability to meet a service level agreement (SLA) of over 99.5% through proactive monitoring, alerting, and operational response.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability tools across all infrastructure layers.
- Develop and manage operational dashboards to provide real-time insights into system performance.
