Cloud Engineer at PayFast

About you

You’d love working with us if you’re a fun, sharp and self-motivated person who has a passion for people and can keep tabs on multiple moving parts in your job. Someone who has outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and is passionate about finding the cream of the crop.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Enjoy a hybrid working model
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Architect, build and operate cloud infrastructure platforms
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
• Automate processes and eliminate toil
• Establish service level objectives and track service level indicators
• Build observability and alerting capabilities to meet SLAs
• Optimize, scale, and build resiliency into the platforms
• Build self-service capabilities for application teams (CI/CD, monitoring dashboards)
• Develop libraries, tools and automation code
• Share knowledge within the team and across the organization
• Be part of open-source communities and contribute code to upstream repositories

What you’ll need

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in at least two of the following: Bash, Perl/Python, Java, Golang, C++, PHP
• Demonstrated knowledge of Azure, Oracle Cloud, AWS or Google Cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Deep expertise in containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven ability in automated infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, ARM templates, CloudFormation)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, LDAP, IPSec, HTTP, GRPC, DHCP, and DNS)
• Experienced in setting up monitoring, log aggregation and alerting (Prometheus, Elastic Stack, PagerDuty)
• Strong skills in deployment and configuration automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• In-depth Linux and Windows OS troubleshooting skills

While not required, it’ll probably help if you have some knowledge of fintech, and an interest in entrepreneurship and startups would be beneficial. But don’t worry, there’s no need to be a unicorn as we’ll offer onboarding assistance.