Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Powered Backend & DevOps
Summary
The Awareness Company in Johannesburg is hiring a Platform Engineer to own the backend and infrastructure of HYDRA, its AI-powered platform for Africa-wide operations. Day to day: leading platform migrations and ensuring fast, reliable multi-tenant performance, while driving CI/CD, observability and scalable cloud work in an AI-first way with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot.
The Awareness Company in Fourways, Johannesburg, Gauteng, is seeking a deeply technical Platform Engineer to own the backend and infrastructure heart of HYDRA, the AI-powered platform powering Africa-wide operations. You will lead migrations to the next-generation platform, ensuring fast, reliable, multi-tenant performance.
You will work AI-first with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Copilot, partnering with the CTO on architecture, and driving CI/CD, observability, and scalable cloud