Platform Engineer
Own and scale Kubernetes platforms for health ministries across Africa, automating deployments with GitOps and ensuring reliability for mission-critical workloads.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Rwanda | Africa
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of 5 years in cloud/platform engineering, with significant hands-on time operating Kubernetes in production.
- Proven track record of designing and running scalable, secure, and reliable cloud- and container-based platforms.
- Experience managing on-premise and bare-metal deployments of Kubernetes clusters.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to research deeply and develop innovative solutions to complex infrastructure challenges.
- Strong communication skills and a genuine ability to collaborate across cross-functional, distributed teams.
- Willingness to travel across the African continent to support our in-country teams when needed.
Full description
Platform Engineer
Are you the kind of engineer who sees a cluster not as plumbing but as the foundation on which real lives depend? At Sand, you'll own the Kubernetes platform that ministries of health use to make decisions for millions of people. It's expanding country by country: a growing fleet that spans managed cloud and self-managed, sovereign on-premises clusters, because where health data must live is the law, not a preference. Every new deployment is a fresh reliability problem, not a copy-paste when a cluster wobbles, a health worker loses the data they need. You'll automate relentlessly, codify everything with GitOps, and maintain a single operating standard across the whole estate. If you're as curious about the lives behind the systems as you are about the systems themselves, this is your foundation to build on.
About Sand
Sand Technologies is a global Physical AI company using data and AI to make critical industries work better. We partner with governments, cities, and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications, and infrastructure.
Our work delivers proven real-world impact. We have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply, supported telecom network planning across hundreds of cities, and developed digital healthcare platforms serving tens of millions of people across Africa. From intelligent command centers to AI-powered infrastructure platforms, we help organizations sense, analyze, and act in complex environments.
Our people are ambitious, curious, and relentlessly practical. Our teams work alongside clients in the field, solving hard problems and deploying solutions that last. With colleagues across Africa, Europe, the UK, and the US, we operate across the full stack - from research and engineering to deployment and capability building.
Our mission is simple: to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.
About the role
As our platforms scale across industries and deployment environments, we’re looking for a Platform Engineer who lives and breathes Kubernetes. You’ll own the foundations that everything else at Sand runs on — designing, operating, and hardening the clusters, pipelines, and reliability practices that let our product and delivery teams ship critical systems with confidence.
This is a deeply hands-on site reliability role. You’ll work across managed cloud Kubernetes and self-managed on-premises clusters, treat infrastructure as code, automate relentlessly through GitOps, and build the observability and operational discipline that keeps mission-critical workloads healthy.
What you’ll do
- Kubernetes platform ownership: Design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes clusters across AWS EKS and on-premises / bare-metal environments — owning cluster lifecycle, upgrades, multi-cluster topology, RBAC, networking, ingress, storage, and workload security.