Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps) (CH565)

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Ref:Â CH565

Our client, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented DevOps Engineer to join their team in Cape Town.

Our client is a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

DevOps Engineers are responsible for building, operating, and securing the platform that supports the company. We enable and support a culture of DevOps so that the development teams get more for free, and are enabled to move faster, safer. The company is a fast-growing company, which means that there is a lot of opportunity to shape the tools, technologies, process, and culture of DevOps in the company.

The position reports to the DevOps Team Lead

Your daily work will involve:

• Terraform to manage Cloud Infrastructure, Chef to manage virtual servers
• Building and deploying systems for metrics, monitoring, and logging
• Operations for Kafka, Kubernetes, Nginx, Memcache, and more
• CI/CD Build Systems to ensure our teams can deploy frequently and safely
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
• Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems

To achieve this, we’re looking for someone that:

• Is passionate about technology, keeping up to date with the industry, always learning
• Is a team player, an active listener, and is able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Has experience managing production systems
• Has either a degree in computer science, or industry experience
• Has a reasonable understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP)
• Has experience with Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Disks, Security)
• Has experience with one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

We would also like to see at least one of the following in the candidate:

• Can write code (we use Python)
• Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
• Have experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, etc)
• Understand networking deeply (TCP/IP, calico/weave, vlans, tcpdump, etc)
• Understand Linux deeply (kernel tuning, proc filesystem, cgroups, os scheduling, etc)
• Have experience with Build Systems (Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker)

Requirements:

• 3-year computer science degree (or equivalent experience)
• At least 2 years of professional experience
• An understanding of computer science fundamentals, including Linux and operating systems, networking
• Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms

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The Environment:

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of the company being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

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Personal Attributes:

We seek people who are:

• Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute
• Analytical, able to use data to make decisions. Letting data decide but not consume
• Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only during business hours
• Curious. Always questioning the status quo
• Not averse to risk
• Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative
• Collaborative
• Thorough
• User focused, always trying to understand a product from the user’s perspective
• Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular

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General:

• Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.
• While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 15 days please consider your application as unsuccessful.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

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