DevOps Engineer

OBJECTIVE Our business headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, focuses on mobile transacting and the development of digital applications, while specialising in integration into retailer’s point-of-sale’s.

Objective

Our business headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, focuses on mobile transacting and the development of digital applications, while specialising in integration into retailer’s point-of-sale’s. This Posting will be based in Mauritius.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join our team and assist us in creating reliable, re-usable and leading-edge DevOps practices and tools. You will be responsible for ensuring application deployments to both the cloud and local data centers are performed reliably and repeatedly through the use of advanced scripting and tools. You will also ensure optimal application performance and functional monitoring as well as upgrade management. You will be part of a team of Testers, Analysts, Developers and DevOps engineers who deliver remarkable solutions to our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Automation of Dev, QA and Production environments in AWS and local DC’s
• Release management (DEV/QA/INT/PROD)
• Develop scripts for data extracts, fixes and deployments
• Testing of Software services (e.g. APIs) and infrastructure during deployment
• Resolve technical PROD, QA and Dev environment issues
• Building a technical knowledgebase of solutions
• Investigate and address availability, performance and capacity issues.
• Ensures the client solution build, deployment and enhancements are delivered on time and to specification both within the initial release and in all subsequent releases.
• Manage databases (deploy, optimise, backup, configure, monitor)
• System administration (Linux and Windows servers)
• Patch and upgrade management to servers, bought products and developed products
• Configuration Management
• Functional monitoring

Requirements

1. Knowledge

• Ø Bare-minimum
  • Min 5 years in a DevOps role
  • AWS products and tools (full suite)
  • Python and Bash scripting
  • Ansible and deploy.py familiarity
  • MySQL/Aurora and MongoDB
  • Jenkins experience
  • Docker experience
  • Wildfly and Glassfish server administration and optimisation
  • Understanding of auto-scaling environments and microservices and monitoring thereof
  • System monitoring tools (e.g. Graphite, New Relic, Data Dog, Mint)
  • Solid Linux understanding
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Ø Advantageous
    • Strong understanding of Networks, including subnet classes and sub-classing thereof, VPNs and the various types, and route tables and NAT gateways
    • Strong understanding of security including perimeter, application, and database level security and implementation thereof
    • Terraform or other cloud-agnostic provisioning tools
    • Chef, Puppet, or similar configuration management and orchestration tools

2.Qualifications

• IT/ related Bachelor & degree or Diploma
• Certifications in tools listed above would be advantageous

3.Skills & Characteristics

• A keen learner
• Highly self-motivated, team player.
• Logical with a passion for solving problems
• Exceptional attention to detail with proven inter-personal skills
• Customer service orientation
• Demonstrated ability to remain self-motivated
• Able to manage pressure and deadlines timeously and effectively
• Process & Delivery driven
• Comfortable with ambiguity – clarifying problems and expectations
• Ability to create structure and order and work well under pressure
• Proactive with a sense of urgency
• Able to document new processes/flows/tools within the DevOps context