Hybrid DevOps Cloud Engineer

SUMMARY:
Hybrid DevOps Cloud Engineer, Global Software Development entity, Either Cape Town or Johannesburg based.

POSITION INFO:

Our client, a highly renowned Global Software Development entity is seeking to URGENTLY appoint a dynamic DevOps Cloud Engineer to join their team based in either Johannesburg or Cape Town.

PLEASE NOTE:

This position offers the option of remote / hybrid/in-office.

KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 3+ years of experience as a cloud engineer in a DevOps capacity is essential.
• Approximately 2+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in Java, .NET, or Python (experience in other languages may still be considered)
• Approximately 4+ years of experience in public cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Approximately 4+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms
• A solidly grounded understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design.
• A strong understanding of all components in a full-stack solution (front-end, back-end, and storage) as well as how they typically interact.
• Being conversant with monitoring and observability tooling and practices.
• A working knowledge of configuration management tools and Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform / CDK / Pulumi) and practices will be beneficial.
• In-depth experience in Release Engineering, CI/CD tooling and practices
• Experience in serverless architectures and tools
• Proven experience assisting development teams to deliver rapidly and reliably.
• Development background preferred although operations background will be preferred.
• Solidly grounded knowledge of:
• Build tooling such as Maven, NPM, Go builds, Make, and Scripting
• Software testing practices such as unit, integration, end-to-end, and their implementation
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub actions, GitLab pipelines, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and ArgoCD)
• Release management practices and common release processes (Blue / Green, Canary, etc.)
• Git and various branching models
• Serverless architectures and tooling (AWS Lambda / FaaS/ Serverless/ SAM)
• CNCF tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Public cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP), certification preferable

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working in an Agile team and interacting closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality.
• Mentoring and advising junior cloud engineers as they grow in the field.
• Making use of sound interpersonal skills and passion for improving the software delivery lifecycle through the implementation of DevOps principles.
• Focussing mainly on delivering and maintaining production-grade systems which adhere to DevOps and SRE practices.
• Designing, implementing, and optimising the entire software release process.

Apply Now!

WILLINGNESS TO RELOCATE TO EITHER CAPE TOWN OR JOHANNESBURG AS WILL BE REQUIRED BY THE CLIENT’S OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCIES WILL BE ESSENTIAL. SHOULD THIS OPPORTUNITY NOT BE ALIGNED TO YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS, KINDLY FORWARD IT TO A FRIEND.

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