Our client in the technology solutions industry is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their dynamic team and assist in the delivery of cloud solutions. This role is based in Randburg, the incumbent will be working on site for the first 6 months and thereafter it may be a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Performance Areas:
- Focusing mainly on delivering and maintaining production-grade systems which adhere to the pillars of the Site Reliability Engineer
- Create, develop and maintain Cloud migration patterns for maximum reuse
- Working in an Agile team follow and interacting closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality
- Ability to maintain a calm temperament in the face of potential incidents as well as good interpersonal skills when communicating with clients and other team members
- Driving highly available and resilient architecture decisions, then implementing them with your team
- Mentoring and advising junior Site Reliability Engineers as they grow in the field
- Expert knowledge in:
- Configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices
- Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (NewRelic, Graphite, ELK, EFK, Nagios, Ganglia, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
- Implementing SLIs and maintaining SLOs / SLAs
- Incident management, on-call responsibilities, and post-mortems
- Production readiness reviews of microservice workloads
- Toil automation using one of the aforementioned programming languages
- Intersystem integration mechanisms (REST APIs, SSH file delivery, site-to-site VPNs)
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
- AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification (preferred)
- Azure Fundamentals certification (optional)
- Google Cloud Associate Engineer certification (optional)
- 7 years’ working experience in the IT industry (Implementation and Consulting)
- 5 years’ experience in Enterprise IT and Infrastructure across multiple technologies
- 3 years’ experience in AWS Cloud implementations
- 2 years’ experience in scripting or shell experience
Should you be interested in applying for this role, please apply directly to this job advert. If you do not hear from us within 2 week’s of application please do consider your application as unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- Consulting
- Information Technology (IT)
- IT Infrastructure
- Scripting