CLOUD ENGINEER - Remote

SUMMARY:
CLOUD ENGINEER - Remote

POSITION INFO:

Salary depending on experience (50 – 65 000 bracket)

Location: remote but head office is in Cape Town

Industry: Online Gaming

Our client is a Dev House with full-stack workforce that functions within an agile environment. Using  evolving processes, they conceive, specify, design, develop, test, and maintain software applications, frameworks and platforms.

As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining cloud software and systems. The company is expanding into further international territories in addition to building and rolling out a new software platform. This creates an exciting environment where there is opportunity for interesting work to be carried out from a DevOps point of view.

The company is currently working remotely, until it is safe for our employees to return to work. The successful candidate will be virtually onboarded for now.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Continuous delivery and software tooling to aid the software development process and production deployment strategies.
• Continuous integration tooling on servers to aid in the software development process. Kubernetes experience is very welcome.
• Management of virtual environments.
• Find opportunities to remove repetitive and/or error prone tasks via automation.
• Ensuring maximum uptime via the continuous monitoring of critical services. This includes ensuring all the required monitoring is in place.
• After hours and weekend support according to a support schedule. Requires 24/7 availability for support.
• Ensure that the provisioned equipment is being utilised efficiently to maximise the efficiency and capacity of the systems and meet business needs.
• Ensure redundancy on all systems.
• Ensure all systems have documented and tested backup plans.
• Manage the configuration of the various platforms utilised for production and development.
• Assist the development teams to manage code from local devices through to production via multiple development environments. I.e. manage the DevOps life cycle.
• Collaborate with the software development teams on infrastructure requirements for new features and services to be delivered to production. This includes planning, design, documentation and implementation of new production systems.
• Produce design and systems documentation where required.
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures.
• Continuous optimization and improvement to existing processes, systems and infrastructure.

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge with System Administration in Linux. (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and associated technologies.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives.
• Designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Excellent knowledge with System
• Administration in Linux. (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and associated technologies.
• Basic knowledge managing version control platforms.
• Working knowledge of network services.
• Strong knowledge of the OSI model and the layers.

Required Experience

• Working knowledge with relational and non-relational databases.
• Strong knowledge of web server technologies.
• At least 3 years of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Experience in migrating environments to the cloud
• Experience with SysOps.
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Advantageous Experience

• Advanced experience with Networking and troubleshooting. (eg: TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN)
• Experience with security audits. (eg: penetration testing, security certification, ISO 27000 & PCI)
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies. (eg: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc)
• Strong experience implementing a high availability environment or any load balancing technologies.
• Experience in designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems.

Attributes:

• Self-motivated with strong team spirit.
• Ability to work independently with little supervision as well as ability to work within a team.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to communicate well to both technical and non-technical staff.

Qualifications and additional skills:

• Degree/diploma in Information Systems
• Mid-level experienced position.
• At least 5 years’ experience in similar role.
• Displays positive attitude
• Demonstrates flexibility in day-to-day work
• Proactive
• Able to think logical and objectively with the ability to think outside of the box
• Comfortable working under pressure
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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