Senior DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:
My client who is in the Financial Services industry is looking to appoint a Senior DevOps Engineer. The person can be based in Cape Town where the head office is based or in Gauteng to work remotely.

POSITION INFO:

My client who is in the Financial Services industry is looking to appoint a Senior DevOps Engineer. The person can be based in Cape Town where the head office is based or in Gauteng to work remotely.

Duties and Responsibilities (include but is not limited to):

• Collaboratively manage all cloud infrastructure environments as part of the DevOps team
• Monitor the environments to ensure they are working effectively at all times
• Implement intrusion prevention & detection tools
• Ensure operating system and software installation and configuration are correct
• Proactively enhance & refine monitoring & alerting systems
• Identify ways to enhance the performance
• Ensure redundancy, failover and recovery of systems
• Collaborate and communicate effectively
• Ensure high-level design documentation & system diagrams are produced
• Attend & actively contribute in all relevant meetings in line with agile methodology
• Identify ways to resolve issues and to make the business more efficient and productive
• Knowledge and skill share and with DevOps engineers in the team
• Take strategic ownership of our internal Infrastructure
• To manage own professional and self-development

Key Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
• Related tertiary qualification (Desirable)
• 7+ years’ experience in the DevOps / IT / SysAdmin space
• Solid experience in Linux administration (Essential),
• Experience with building PCI / ISO27001 systems (Desirable)
• Knowledge of agile and TDD methodology
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS required, Azure & GCP desired)
• Knowledge of configuration management – puppet, chef, ansible, salt, VPN
• Knowledge of Scripting – bash,php, ruby, python
• Knowledge of config and monitoring of core apps: web servers, databases, messaging queues (e.g., apache, nginx, mysql, beanstalkd, rabbitmq)
• Knowledge of maintaining supporting applications – issue tracking (JIRA), CI (jenkins), logging (ELK), deployments (Capistrano)
• Knowledge of network management: DNS, routing, firewall, load balancing and proxy
• Knowledge of database hosting: primary and read replica design

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