DevOps Guru

Duties and Responsibilities
- Support and manage our hosting environment
- Support our development team
- Find opportunities to streamline how we work
- Drive opportunities for efficiencies
- Knowledge sharing – support and upskilling of the rest of the team
- Championing relevant documentation

Requirements
-Experience in deploying highly available automated Linux-based systems
-Solid understanding of networking protocols and how the internet works
-Experience with containerization, Docker etc
-Experience in automating with Ansible or similar tools
-A good understanding of databases, database design and optimization
-Experience with coding, ideally backend services in Python, PHP reasonable understanding of web technologies
-Knowledge of automated testing
-Building CI/CD pipelines
-Proven ability and interest in picking up new technologies quickly, leading evaluations and providing suggestions of key technologies to base future development around
Great problem solving ability, especially under pressure
-A passion to lead and mentor more junior DevOps engineers
-An ability to explain and articulate technical detail clearly to technical management and developers
-Understanding of the importance of writing documentation and training other staff on operating platforms
-Architecting, deploying, maintaining and scaling platforms

Benefits
Our benefits are second to none — We look after our people!
1. We look after your wellbeing and encourage a healthy lifestyle: We pay 100% of your medical aid (Discovery & Vitality) — so no deduction unless you want to add a beneficiary
2. We think of your future: Retirement Annuity — up to 5% co-contribution