DevOps Engineer
Contract duration: 12 months
Location: Johannesburg, Rosebank
Work model: hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the office however , the department is moving towards full time back in office at some point it will be compulsory to be office based.
Key Responsibilities
- Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
- Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas
- AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout)
- Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments
- Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
- Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context
- Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices
- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices
Technology & tooling
- Mandatory:
- AWS Services (EC2, RDS – Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)
- AWS CDK
- Observability tooling – AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
- CI/CD platforms (e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)
- Operating Systems – Linux and Windows server
Preferred
- Python scripting
- AWS CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Bash scripting
Certifications (Beneficial)
- AWS CloudOps Engineer
- AWS Solutions Architect
Optional
- Zabbix monitoring
- Keycloak
- ActiveMQ
- Weblogic 14c
- Nginx
Personal Attributes
- Willingness to engage
- Curiosity
- Sound communication skills
- Ability to self-direct
Desired Skills:
- Devops Engineer
- Devops Engineer
- Devops Engineer