Our client has a vacancy for a DevOps Lead situated in Cape Town CBD (remote for now).
You will be working in an agile environment alongside a dynamic, multi-skilled team of developers and operational staff. You will take full responsibility for the uptime, performance, security and deployment of the entire web and development environment. You are used to a fast- paced environment where efficiency is a priority and multi-tasking is a requirement. You are passionate in being part of their transition from a traditional hosted environment to a fully cloud hosted environment with containerization and serverless on the horizon. This position is demanding yet very rewarding. If you can visualize the future and drive progress to move towards it this position is made for you!
Job Outputs:
Main focus will be on delivering solutions in Azure, AWS and GCP while automating deployment,
system maintenance, and keeping the platforms monitored and stable.
- Lead the operations team.
- Architect and manage Azure infrastructure.
- Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure.
- Manage security.
- Manage CDN services.
- Implement and oversee secure practices in hosting and the SDLC process.
- Manage backup and disaster recovery.
- Manage infrastructure and licencing budgets.
- Automate deployment, monitoring, response, backup, and recovery procedures.
- Modernize legacy infrastructure to take advantage of Azure capability.
- Collaborate with architects to deliver solutions that are both cost efficient and highly scalable.
- Continuous scalability and cost optimization.
- Documentation of all infrastructure and procedures.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting of IIS, nGinx, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, MS SQL.
- Investigate and resolve technical issues
- Be available after hours to attend to critical outages and planned changes.
Skills and competence:
- Proven track record of designing, implementing and supporting high scale services.
- Ability to match business needs with smart solutions to meet scalability and costing needs.
- Ability to constructively lead others and by so doing raise team performance.
- An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to absorb pressure in stressful situations.
- Broad cloud knowledge, staying abreast of all tech trends.
- Flexible about working with a wide range of technologies.
Qualifications and experience:
7+ years’ experience in managing and building scalable infrastructure.
5+ years’ hands on DevOps experience
3+ years’ experience in leading teams.
Preferred certifications: Microsoft Azure Architect Design / Technologies, Microsoft Azure DevOps
Solutions and Security Technologies
Hands on experience with the following:
- Architectural and strategic input
- Cost calculations and budgeting for forecasts and planning
- Documentation for both knowledge sharing and auditing needs
- Azure
- Virtual Networking
- Secure practices
- Windows
- Linux
- IIS
- MS SQL
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Infrastructure as code
Bonus:
- Redis
- ElasticSearch
- AWS
- nGinx
- MySQL
- GCP
- Containerization
- Serverless architecture
Desired Skills:
- DevOps
- Team Lead
- Architecture
- Azure
- cloud
- linux
- redis
- elasticSearch