Solution Architect & DevOps Specialist

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POSITION INFO:

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The Job Requirements

IT Knowledge:

• Deep knowledge and experience in software design, platform design and application operations.

• Very good knowledge in recent IT base technology (Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, REST APIs)

• Experience configuring and fine tuning large clusters.

• Experience with Server to Server and Client to Server communication interfaces (REST, MQ, MQTT, PubSub)

• Good IT base knowledge (Linux, XML, JSON, data modeling, handling large amounts of data)

• 2+ years of ElasticSearch experience in production, in medium to large clusters.

• Good understanding of ElasticSearch concepts and terminology (i.e. aliases, partitioning, shards and replication)

• Administration/Configuration/Management of ElasticSearch, Kibana, Web- and Application Servers

• Experience working in a DevOps team following agile methodologies and guidelines.

Personal skills

• Pioneering spirit in dealing with new technologies and abstraction

• Communication and team skills

• High commitment

• Independent working attitude and self-directed learning skills

• High issue solving skills and willingness

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Outputs

• Close collaboration with the CoC members in architectural enhancements of the MO IoT Platform.

• Enhancement of and integration in the overall end-to-end CI/CD process chain, bringing the platform to the "true North Star" level.

• Packaging, Distribution, Operations and maintenance of key components within the MO IoT Platform, such as, ElasticSearch, Kibana, metricbeat, filebeat & Logstash.

• Key contact for one of the major applications on the platform

• Supporting the overall DevOps process chain with test automation (in Junit, Jmeter, …), configuration and deployment management (Jenkins/Bamboo, Ansible).

• Participate in cluster preparation and migration for ElasticSearch /Opensearch to Kubernetes environment.

• Participate in team discussions and provide input regarding strategic team decisions.

• Monitor, maintain, and enhance our ElasticSearch instances in 10+ locations.

• Collaborate and work with colleagues in different time zones.

• Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology
• Minimum 3 -5 Years’ experience in IT

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