Specialist Product Engineer

SUMMARY:
Specialist Product Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Specialist Product Engineer to join their team in Cape town on a contract basis. They offer stability, exposure, growth, attractive salary and an excellent working environment.

Description

Our client is looking for a specialist Product Engineer to design and develop frameworks and applications that will enable integration of individual pieces in CI/CD pipeline and improve reliability of core systems and eliminate manual interactions.

Requirements

• The overall idea is to bring value to the customers through simplification of development lifecycle for all colleagues.
• Ensuring proper architectural principles are followed and good quality of code is being produced
• Manage the business relationship by liaising directly with stakeholders and product owners throughout an agile development lifecycle
• Following DevOps principles and promote them to other teams
• Have a “we build it, we run it” mind set – you are responsible end to end for stability and success of your applications
• Play a lead role in identifying new ways of working, new technology that can be used, and better ways of using existing technology
• Strong focus on creating products where teams are self-enabled, decentralized management thereof and loosely coupled high available architecture. 

Skills

• University Degree or higher certificate in information technology
• Min 3 – 5 years DevOps experience · Good knowledge of at least one scripting language (PowerShell, Go, Python)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform or Ansible)
• Working knowledge of public cloud, preferably AWS
• Full understanding of CI/CD principles
• Security-first mind-set
• Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, SSL and load balancing
• Hands-on experience with Docker · At least basic exposure to Kubernetes and Helm
• Knowledge of Web Services / Micro Services (REST)
• Full stack application development experience is a strong advantage
• Experience in the following technologies is beneficial: Azure DevOps, Redis, Rancher, .Net Core, RabbitMQ, Elastic stack
• Excellent communication skills What we offer
• Everyone has a different skill set on a different level, we learn from each other every day and you will learn and teach to

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