Senior DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:
Are you a DevOps engineer who’s looking for a fantastic opportunity?We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our development and support team based in Cape Town. We make world-class digital marketing products and need someone to fulfill a pivotal role focusing on developing and maintaining our suite of products.

The candidate must be able to operate well in a high-paced environment, have hands-on technical experience, and a can-do approach towards environment automation/management and continuous improvement.

This role would be suitable for someone that wants to make their mark. The ideal candidate will have a wide-ranging experience in this field to identify the best solutions for the business. They will be responsible for implementing and managing DevOps systems whilst working closely with the development team to deliver the best possible experience to our customers.

POSITION INFO:

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Deploying, automating, maintaining, monitoring, and managing production systems to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Suggesting architecture improvements and recommending process enhancements.
• Evaluating new technology options and vendor products.
• Designing network topology and infrastructure.
• Managing server hardware, sizing, scalability, and deployment best practices.
• Managing centralized backup and restore activities.
• Defining processes and procedures for regular server and system health checks.
• Liaising with development teams for product enhancements and troubleshooting.
• Supporting technical support personnel with system use.

Requirements:

• Presentable and well-spoken; able to work under pressure.
• Good communicator with a sense of responsibility.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Highly analytical, structured thinking with attention to detail.

Technical Requirements:

• Solid experience in DevOps with 24/7 uptime, automation, and configuration management (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python).
• Familiar with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub Actions).
• Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Proxmox, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Skilled in provisioning and scaling cloud-native applications.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure integration.

• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiar with centralized logging (ELK Stack, Splunk, Fluentd, Graylog).
• Implementing alerting and automated incident responses.

• Knowledge of DevSecOps and security best practices in CI/CD.
• Experience with secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, SOPS).
• Familiar with SSL/TLS management (Let's Encrypt, OpenSSL).
• Awareness of compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI – beneficial).

• Good understanding of email systems (Exim4, Postfix, Microsoft Exchange, M365).
• Solid knowledge of network protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS).
• Firewall management and VPN configuration.
• Experience with load balancing and reverse proxies (NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik).

• 5+ years of Linux experience (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Oracle Linux).
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred, MySQL).

• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Good documentation practices (Confluence, Markdown).
• Proficient in Git and version control best practices.