Are you a DevOps expert ready to make an impact? We’re looking for a highly skilled DevOps Consultant to join a leading consulting firm in Gauteng on a short-term contract. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love solving complex problems, and enjoy working with cutting-edge tech, this is your chance to shine!
Key responsibilities:
- Continuously tested & delivered Infrastructure, Pipeline, and Policy as Code
- Extensible automation & dependency management code frameworks
- Development of event driven functions, APIs, backend services, Command Language Interfaces, and Self-Service Developer Portals.
- 8 years of CI/CD experience
- 5 years of serverless or container-based architecture experience
- 5 years of Infrastructure as code (IAC) experience
- Contribute to cloud and application orchestration code and actively involved in peer reviews
- Can deploy and manage the common tools we use (Jenkins, monitoring, logging, SCM, etc.) from code
- Advance networking (tcpdump, network flow security analysis, can collect and understand metric between microservices)
- Experience with advanced authentication technologies (federated auth, SSO)
- Fluent in Agile practices
Education and experience needed for the role:
- 4 years coding in either Python, Typescript, or Golang
- 5 years’ scripting experience in bash or powershell
- 8 years of networking experience (security, DNS, VPN, Cloud, load balancing)
- 5+ years of systems administration experience with at least one operating system (Linux or Windows)
- 5 years’ experience with AWS
- Deployments using Terraform
- API Gateway configurations
- AWS Security and IAM experience (preferred – certification)
- Kafka deployment experience
- AWS cloudwatch set up experience in on-going monitoring of services
Desired Skills:
- DevOps Engineering
- Bash
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)