Information Technology · Full-time
Direct employerPlatform Engineer
RwandaMid level · Not statedDeadline not published by employerChecked 6 Nov 2026
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About this role
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Role overview
Sand Technologies needs a Platform Engineer in Rwanda or elsewhere in Africa to operate Kubernetes foundations for critical systems, including health platforms used by ministries. This hands-on SRE post spans managed AWS cloud and sovereign on-premises deployments and works with distributed teams; travel across Africa may be needed.
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What you will do
- Design, deploy and run production Kubernetes on AWS EKS, on-premises and bare metal, covering upgrades, multi-cluster design, RBAC, networking, ingress, storage and workload security.
- Create safe self-service paths with Helm charts, operators or CRDs, reusable manifests and internal tools.
- Deliver GitOps through Argo CD or Flux and keep infrastructure declarative, reproducible, auditable and recoverable.
- Set SLOs and error budgets, handle incidents and blameless reviews, and improve capacity, autoscaling, resilience and security.
- Own monitoring, logs, tracing and alerts with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar tools.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, investigate infrastructure problems and resolve cluster, network and platform issues quickly.
Requirements
- Have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, IT or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Bring at least 5 years in cloud or platform engineering and substantial production Kubernetes experience.
- Have designed and run scalable, secure cloud and container platforms, including on-premises and bare-metal Kubernetes.
- Solve complex infrastructure problems through research and practical prototypes, communicate well and collaborate across distributed functions.
- Be comfortable in small and globally coordinated teams, take ownership, work independently and communicate clearly through virtual tools and video meetings.
How to apply
Apply on the employer's application page. The employer has not published a closing date.