AWS Cloud Engineer at Electrum

Description

The Company

ELECTRUM is a FinTech company based in Woodstock, Cape Town. We are South Africa’s leading payments software experts and build cloud-based transaction processing technology that is used by banks, retailers and MNOs.

We hire top talent and offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression. You will be joining a dynamic, skilled and delivery-focused organisation. Our work environment is relaxed yet results-driven. Side benefits include a trendy office space, free healthy cooked lunch and regular team get togethers.

The Role

• As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be responsible for provisioning and maintaining Electrum’s most mission critical cloud-based production systems. This will involve working closely with Engineering teams to ensure that the technical requirements for moving projects into production are met, as well as ensuring monitoring and alerting feedback loops of critical infrastructure is constantly improved.
• You understand that failure is unavoidable, and will help to constantly improve Electrum’s incident response handling. You'll also be involved in project management activities such as ensuring deadlines are met and end user expectations are maintained. Your role may involve working with third party vendors on technology solutions or providing support during customer implementations of new software products or applications.
• This is a fast moving industry and we know that you will need to keep yourself up-to-date with new advances in technologies and to stay relevant with required certifications: you will have access to a generous training and education allowance dedicated to furthering your skill sets. You will also have the opportunity to gain deep knowledge of payments technology along with further developing your service delivery and cloud technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Managing and administrating Linux environments.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Updating job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications and participating in professional organisations.
• Leading and growing a Cloud Engineering team.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• 5+ years experience in Infrastructure, Software Development and DevOps.
• 3+ years experience with Linux operating systems.
• 1+ years experience working as a team lead.
• Associate / Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, IT Engineering.
• AWS certifications required (SysOps Administrator is preferred

Advantageous for the role:

• Experience in Java or a similar object oriented programming language is beneficial.
• Experience in financial services or banking organisations.
• Experience in engineering data pipelines such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience with ELK or similar on Public Cloud Platforms.
• Experience developing and supporting infrastructure and Cloud capabilities for container-orchestration architectures.
• Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Experience with configuration of VPN and firewall management.
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies and protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).

Benefits

A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a surf, but you also know when the document you have written is sloppy. At Electrum you will be expected to know when you deserve a surf and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done. For the more “knuckle down” days we make it worth your while with benefits such as:

• Company getaways
• Onsite gym and shower facilities
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• A rad coffee station where you can practice your cappuccino foam art
• Team socialising, hikes, getaways, and dinners
• Understanding that if an emergency comes up, family comes first
• A generous leave policy, starting at 20 days per year
• Flexible work hours
• A recreational area with foosball, table tennis and fatsaks that are perfect for naps

We have created a safe, transparent environment where:

• We know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:
  1. Tell everyone about it
  2. Fix mistake
  3. Tell everyone about it