DevOps Engineer

Phithos is an IT Services and Solutions company building on data-centric technologies for Healthcare, Education, Financial Services and Social-Media industries. At Phithos, we believe in Research & Development, Innovation, large-scale meaningful solutions and Quality Service. We are headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and have offshore delivery center in New Delhi, India from where we are servicing the customers in USA, UK, Africa & India.

We currently offer Permanent/Contract roles where candidates can:

• Work remotely or on-site in Johannesburg or Cape Town.
• Work remotely from Mumbai or Delhi

Our roles are hybrid and work location can be discussed to find the most suitable conditions.

We have an excellent opportunity for a DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for collaborating with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage system and code releases. Cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing and operations teams and keep existing platforms and applications 99.99% available.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure solutions
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
• Build, Manage and Support environments in Azure and AWS cloud
• Deploy updates and fixes via automated pipelines
• Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms, recommendation and implement alternative solutions for enhancing performance
• Conduct systems tests and manage security, performance, and availability
• Design, develop, and implement software integrations
• Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

Required Skills

• AWS and Azure Cloud
• Jenkins
• Strong Linux skills
• Kubernetes
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Puppet
• CFEngine

Education and Experience

Education:

• B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.

• Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef)

• Managing AWS infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture.

• Automation of development processes

• Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring

• Strong command of software-automation production systems (Jenkins and Selenium

• Working knowledge of Ruby or Python and known DevOps tools like Git and GitHub

• Working knowledge of databases and SQL (Structured Query Language)

Knowledge:

• SDLC

• ITIL

• ServiceNow