DevOps Engineer

Contract duration: 12 months

Location: Johannesburg, Rosebank

Work model: hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the office however , the department is moving towards full time back in office at some point it will be compulsory to be office based.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas
• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout)
• Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context
• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices

Technology & tooling

• Mandatory:
• AWS Services (EC2, RDS - Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)
• AWS CDK
• Observability tooling - AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• CI/CD platforms (e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)
• Operating Systems - Linux and Windows server

Preferred

• Python scripting
• AWS CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash scripting

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS CloudOps Engineer
• AWS Solutions Architect

Optional

• Zabbix monitoring
• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• Weblogic 14c
• Nginx

Personal Attributes

• Willingness to engage
• Curiosity
• Sound communication skills
• Ability to self-direct