Senior AI Platform Engineer

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
In-Office
Entry level
Cloud • Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
Designs, automates, and maintains scalable AWS cloud platforms using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and open-source technologies. Responsibilities include monitoring, observability, security, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and platform reliability. The role collaborates with engineering, architecture, security, and DevOps teams while promoting automation and continuous improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In
AI Platform Engineer

CyberPro Consulting

What You'll Do
Build AI Platform Capabilities
  • Design, build, and maintain shared, secure, and observable AI services, including the LLM gateway, agent runtime, and supporting tooling.

  • Improve the developer experience for teams consuming these services through self-service capabilities.

  • Work directly with delivery teams to help them adopt AI capabilities and move solutions from experimentation into production.

  • Provide reference architectures, working examples, and hands-on technical support.

  • Help teams optimise cost and latency through techniques such as dynamic model routing and caching.

  • Ensure platforms have capabilities to sanitise inputs and outputs, redact PII, and block prompt injection at the API layer.

  • Develop patterns for prompt management, model access control, observability, and auditability.

  • Define practical engineering patterns and technical standards.

  • Evaluate emerging tools and technologies and determine where they best fit within the organisation's AI ecosystem.

Required Experience
Software Engineering
  • 10+ years of experience building production software using DevOps principles.

  • Strong Python, Terraform, and/or CloudFormation/CDK experience.

  • Solid experience building APIs and backend services, with a deep understanding of distributed systems.

  • Comfortable with testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.

  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and modern AI tooling, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and open-source models.

  • Deep Linux/Unix operating system and software integration experience.

  • Deep understanding and demonstrated ability to design and build production-grade agentic skills, MCPs, and AI agents.

Cloud and Platform Engineering
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or equivalent AWS certification.

  • Experience with AWS container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and/or ECS.

  • Deep understanding of networking, security, and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

  • Demonstrable knowledge of AWS AgentCore and AWS Bedrock.

  • Demonstrable knowledge of either AWS Strands or the LangChain/LangGraph frameworks.

General
  • Good written and verbal communication skills in English.

  • Proven experience successfully leading teams of 4–6 engineers and acting as a technical role model.

  • Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive deliverables through to completion.

  • Strategic thinker with the ability to drive innovation, think big, and establish technical direction.

Desired Experience
Software Engineering and AI Technologies
  • 15+ years of experience building production software using DevOps principles.

  • Experience with TypeScript, C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, and AWS Systems Manager (SSM).

  • Familiarity with Claude Code CLI, AWS Kiro IDE, AWS Quick, AWS DevOps Agent, and SageMaker Studio AI.

  • Experience with Microsoft Copilot Pro/Cowork and Azure AI Foundry.

  • Exposure to Clew-AI framework and Claude SDK.

  • Experience with AWS Knowledge Bases, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS Neptune, and AWS OpenSearch.

  • Familiarity with CrowdStrike AIDR, PingOne, Microsoft Entra ID, Jira, Microsoft Office Suite, Backstage, and GitHub.

  • Experience working across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments.

  • Experience with LLM Studio, Ollama, LiteLLM, Bifrost, and open-weight model hosting.



Skills Required

  • Strong experience with AWS cloud services
  • Experience with Linux and open-source technologies
  • Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or similar languages
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch
  • Knowledge of networking, security, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
  • Experience with Git and configuration management tools
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms
  • Knowledge of cloud security and DevSecOps practices
  • Experience with AWS EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, and CloudWatch
  • Experience with open-source platform engineering tools and technologies
  • Experience working in Agile environments
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The Company
550 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a South African IT professional-services firm founded in 2000. It helps mid-sized and large enterprises enhance digital capabilities through enterprise, web, and mobile software, data engineering, analytics, data science, AI, cloud architecture and migration, DevOps, cybersecurity, business analysis, project management, testing, and digital transformation services. Its expertise spans banking, insurance, wealth, retail, and telecommunications clients, supporting customer journeys and user-interface design.

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