Platform Engineer

Posting Country:  Mozambique
Date Posted:  30 Jul 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodacom, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it’s our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

Role purpose: A highly technical Engineer that works on building/deploying technical enablers for software engineering, including libraries, frameworks, CLI tools, plugins, runtime environments and self-service applications.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

  • Develop modules & template projects to be used by squads to accelerate delivery.
  • Build/deliver DevOps applications & software infrastructure components (tools & frameworks).
  • Build/Implement component services to be re-used across different business domains.
  • Support developers/teams using and solving issues with Tools & Frameworks built/delivered by platform team.
    Write test automation suites to validate functionality and detect
  • regression automatically.
    Write comprehensive documentation to be consumed by Software developers and Platform operators.
  • Provide and maintain foundational compute, networking, and platform services required to run applications and services reliably and securely, across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
  • Provide, customize, configure, and deploy external, open-source, or vendor-supplied systems that are foundational to the platform’s operation.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

  • Experience with full stack software Development (4 years minimum).
  • Experience building scalable and highly available systems.
  • At least 2 year of Linux experience (Desktop and server), developing and/or deploying systems.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining production-grade systems on AWS.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining production-grade systems on-premises using container technology.
  • Ability to learn fast and adapt to changes.
  • English written and spoken.

Must have technical skills: 

  • Web architecture (DNS, CDN, HTTP, Browsers, Reverse proxies, proxies).
  • Full-stack knowledge (Any of: Java, NodeJS, Go) and Web Frontend (TypeScript, SPA Frameworks).
    Scripting (Python, Bash) & Docker/Linux.
  • AWS (IAM, CLI, Lambda Functions, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, EC2, RDS,
  • ECS, Fargate).
  • Kubernetes (Deployment, Helm, Ingress, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets).
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins/Gitlab-CI/Github Actions.

Preferred technical skills: 

  • API Development: Swagger/OAS3, JWT, OAuth2, OpenID Connect.
  • IaC with Terraform.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.
  • Service Mesh & API Gateways: Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Kong, API7, AWS
  • API Gateway.
  • Certificates, KeyStores, TrustStores, Encryption, Hashing.
  • Markdown & Asciidoc.
  • GitOps & Configuration Management: ArgoCD, FluxCD, Ansible, Chef.
  • Networking Fundamentals: VPC design, Subnetting, VPNs, Load
  • Balancers.

Preferred professional qualifications:

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate / Professional.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Application Developer.
  • Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS).

Key performance indicators:

  • Proficiency in technical matters & Ability to put the knowledge to work.
  • Compliance to dev standards & practices.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and anticipate delays.
  • Contribution and engagement level within the team.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people’s lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You’ll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We’re committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences – we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please access the following link:

Platform Engineer Job Details | Vodafone