SRE DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:
SRE DevOps Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Our client a Global Tech firm is seeking an SRE DevOps Engineer to join their team in Sandton or Cape town. Our Client Offers Stability, growth, competitive salary and great benefits.

Description

SRE DevOps engineers take an software development approach to operations. We are responsible for building, deploying and running all service platforms and services. Optimising system reliability, performance and security is our responsibility, and as such we focus heavily on observability, automation, scalable architecture and tooling.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• With an infrastructure as code (IaC) approach you will architect, design and help implement a highly automated cloud-based deployment and operational model.
• Be a strong advocate for a SRE culture with our Development, Operations and Engineering teams.
• Have an automation first approach to application and infrastructure deployment, setup and configuration.
• Continue to deepen your scripting, coding and system administration skills and apply them to reduce time to market for services.
• Assist with the identification and investigation of emerging technologies and associated migration paths to provide cost effective and scalable solutions.
• Assess and document the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
• Create reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Provide advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Evaluate and select appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards.
• Manage reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools and identities and recommends improvements.
• Contribute to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure
• Related experience working with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, DynamoDB, Systems Manager, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, CloudWatch.

Knowledge Skills Attributes:

• Strong working knowledge of Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure
• Related experience working with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, DynamoDB, Systems Manager, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, CloudWatch.
• Good working knowledge of infrastructure design, including network, storage and compute layers.
• Knowledge and experience across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• In-depth experience with at least one automated deployment tool, Chef, Salt and Jenkins experience highly regarded.
• Strong working knowledge with Infrastructure as code technologies such as CloudFormation / Terraform
• Expert level PowerShell / Python / Bash scripting experience.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Server and Linux platforms with a focus on automation and orchestration.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and NoSQL databases
• Experience with source control and build systems, GitLab CI/CD and Azure DevOps experience highly regarded.
• Experience evaluating and integrating new technologies and products.
• Proven experience with Hyper Scaler Cloud IaaS, and PaaS. Azure and AWS experience highly regarded.

Qualifications / Certifications

• Typically requires demonstrable related experience with a Bachelor or equivalent degree; or moderate level experience and a Masters or equivalent degree; or a PhD or equivalent degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant certification

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