LSD Open is looking for an ambitious, highly skilled Platform Engineer to join our Middle East Team. This role will be ideally suited to a candidate who is already considering relocation to the exciting hub of Dubai, or who is interested in working outside of South Africa. LSD Open will sponsor your Visa and pave the way for you to become an international citizen for a minimum period of 18 months. You will also have the opportunity to travel to other countries in the middle east and possibly elsewhere, while still working closely with our engineering team in South Africa.

The LSD Open Platform Engineer will thrive on designing and building amazing Kubernetes-based platforms. He/ she will be responsible for the engineering, delivery and operationalization of LSD Managed Kubernetes environments (MKS) within customer environments (cloud, on-premise and hybrid).

The Platform Engineer will serve as an escalation path for LSD Open Support teams and use mature DevSecOps practices to automate all aspects of MKS delivery and maintenance to drive efficiency and scale.

In addition to the above, the Platform Engineer will: Design and build technical solutions (Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.) Participate, and sometimes provide, support services to the LSD Open customers Ensure technical alignment with technical delivery in the Middle East and the broader LSD Open technical approach. Drive continuous improvement and innovation in the way that technical solutions are delivered within LSD Open Middle East Support Sales activity to serve as a mechanism to ensure alignment between the technical solution and commercial arrangement

This is a role that will require travel, and project work, within the Middle East and into other parts of the world.