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  • eastern cape, za, Eastern Cape Takealot Group Full-time

    Takealot Group is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications and platform services. You will contribute to backend services, APIs, and distributed systems in a hybrid, full-time setup in Cape Town.You will collaborate with product managers, architects, DevOps, and QA to deliver secure, scalable solutions and improve...


  • northern cape, za, Northern Cape Placements24 Full-time

    Placements24 is seeking an AI/ML Platform Engineer in Upington, Northern Cape to design, build, and maintain scalable AI/ML platforms on AWS/Azure/GCP. You will collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to streamline the AI lifecycle and deployment.The role calls for 3+ years in software/DevOps, strong Python/Go scripting, and hands‑on cloud and...


  • Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Moniepoint Full-time

    Moniepoint is seeking a Head of Engineering, Rewards in a fully remote role based in South Africa. You will own the Rewards Platform end-to-end, evolving cashback into a full-featured rewards and personalisation suite for business and consumer customers alike.You will lead a growing team, drive experimentation and A/B testing, and collaborate with Growth,...

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    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Sabenza IT & Recruitment Full-time

    Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Cape Town is recruiting a Networking Platform and Observability Engineer (L2) to maintain client IT infrastructure with a focus on monitoring platforms, security, and documentation.The role requires deploying tools like NetScout, LogicMonitor, Prometheus and Grafana, plus developing network diagrams and participating in change...


  • pretoria, gauteng, South Africa Sabenza IT & Recruitment Full-time

    Sabenza IT & Recruitment in Pretoria is seeking an Expert AI Engineer / Full Stack Developer to move Generative AI from experiments into production-ready solutions. You’ll work with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt/context engineering and enterprise data tooling to build reusable AI platforms that empower development teams. You’ll own end-to-end AI...


  • gauteng, za, Gauteng Guardrisk Full-time

    Guardrisk is the undisputed market leader in cell captive insurance and risk solutions. We are renowned for our innovative approach to cell captive structures and other alternative risk transfer solutions for our clients. Guardrisk offers clients custom designed cover and is registered in South Africa as an insurer for all statutory classes of non-life and...


  • gauteng, za, Gauteng Elite Search & Selection Full-time

    Role:Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability EngineerLocation: Remote but ideally based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, DurbanCompany: Part of a large ICT group, this company offers globally available cloud services, solutions, and platforms for all. Their expertise empowers clients to adopt and migrate to any cloud, wherever they choose.The purpose of the role is...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Confluent Full-time

    Confluent Services, South Africa's largest debt management company, is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data Team. You will design, build and evolve data pipelines across on-premise and cloud platforms, with Azure-focused tooling and modern data practices.You will work with senior engineers and data scientists, contributing to architectural decisions and...


  • johannesburg, gauteng, South Africa AiR Full-time

    AiR in Johannesburg is seeking a Data Analyst to join a 12-month contract focused on payments infrastructure modernization. You will analyze complex payment flows, map end-to-end journeys, and help document requirements for a new Payments Order Management platform. You will define key operational metrics, report standards, and work with stakeholders across...


  • somerset west, western cape, South Africa HedgePo Ltd Full-time

    Allocator is hiring an Agentic AI Developer to join our development team and build AI-powered software for institutional investors. You will work with Data, Product, and Client Success to ship platform features, data pipelines, and internal tooling using Cursor, Claude, Copilot, and other AI tools. This hands-on role requires strong problem-solving skills,...


  • Remote, South Africa Indsafri Full-time

    Indsafri is seeking an experienced Technology/Domain Specialist - Kafka to own the evolution and long-term health of our mission-critical streaming infrastructure. You will lead architecture, deployment, and optimization of our Kafka ecosystem, serving as a key leader within the COE to drive best practices and ensure scalability, security, and performance....


  • za IndSAfri Full-time

    Indsafri is seeking an experienced Technology/Domain Specialist - Kafka to own the evolution and long-term health of our mission-critical streaming infrastructure. You will lead architecture, deployment, and optimization of our Kafka ecosystem, serving as a key leader within the COE to drive best practices and ensure scalability, security, and...


  • Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Momentum Group Limited Full-time

    Role Purpose Provide end-to-end leadership and ownership of the enterprise data platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure, scalable and aligned to business and technology strategy. The role balances hands-on technical leadership with platform governance, vendor management and enablement of analytics, engineering and data teams. Requirements Qualification...


  • Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Momentum Full-time

    Role Purpose Provide end-to-end leadership and ownership of the enterprise data platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure, scalable and aligned to business and technology strategy. The role balances hands-on technical leadership with platform governance, vendor management and enablement of analytics, engineering and data teams. Requirements Qualification...


  • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa ATS Client Full-time

    ATS Client in Sandton is seeking an IT Data Architect to design enterprise Azure data platforms and guide cloud adoption. This on-site role focuses on scalable architectures using Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks and SQL to support analytics initiatives.You will lead data modernisation from legacy systems to cloud, ensure data quality and governance, and...


  • Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Hire Resolve Remote Full-time

    A tech recruitment agency is looking for a Platform Developer in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in .NET and C# development, along with expertise in creating REST APIs and utilizing cloud-based solutions like Azure. You will work in a remote-first environment that fosters collaboration and innovation....


  • Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa PayInc group Full-time

    PayInc group in Rosebank, Johannesburg invites a Senior Digital Workspace Support Engineer to lead enterprise platform engineering across OnBase ECM, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and the Microsoft 365 stack. You will design, implement, and automate workflows, extending Unity scripts and Power Platform solutions to boost end-user productivity and business process...


  • za Communicate Finance Full-time

    Communicate Finance seeks a Principal Engineer to build the AI engineering foundations enabling AI-assisted software delivery across multiple teams. You will design and deploy platforms, tooling, standards, and guardrails to help engineers work more effectively with AI.You’ll influence a 150-person engineering function while remaining a hands-on technical...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Sabenza IT & Recruitment Full-time

    Networking Platform and Observability Engineer (L2)Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 12/10/2026As a Networking Managed Services Engineer (L2), you'll takeon a developing engineering role where your main goal is to ensure our clients'IT infrastructure and systems remain operational.Requirements:Adhereto IT security measures.Workingknowledge of Ansible and...


  • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa DataTech Recruitment Full-time

    DataTech Recruitment is hiring an AWS DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead in Johannesburg. You’ll be hands-on technically while steering the AWS DevOps and platform engineering capability, delivering across migrations, modernisation projects and managed services.The role requires leading and developing the DevOps team, owning delivery standards, mentoring...