Cloud Engineer (Sandton) at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Known for its innovation and cutting-edge technology, this would be an excellent opportunity for someone looking to expand their industry knowledge and work with leading technology years ahead of its competitors.
• This is a brilliant opportunity to work in SA’s best-rated banking environment with SA’s highly skilled Cloud professionals.
• A cloud engineer is responsible for the setup and maintenance of cloud environments that enable our developers and product owners/senior users to experience mature and integrated development and deployment. The work of a cloud engineer brings full automation of the development to deployment production pipeline and rapid deployment of code to the team. It includes automation of code pulls, code integration and container builds, quality assurance, infrastructure, as well as the controls necessary for an appropriately administered delivery of code into production.

Job Description

Experience and qualifications 
Must Have: 

• Relevant degree 
• Certification in the AWS Cloud Platform 
• Experience as a cloud engineer (or equivalent) in a large organisation;
• Familiarity with program languages including .Net, PHP, Python and Selenium (Jscript) 

Experience with: 

• Openstack, Linux, Amazon Webservices, Docker and Kubernetes 
• APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases 
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 
• Proven technical troubleshooting and performance-tuning experience. 

Should Have: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science 
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 
• Certification in additional cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure 
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with cloud services and practices, including: 
• Cloud infrastructure management tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform 
• Hashicorp packer image building tool 
• Automation/configuration management using puppet or chef 

Could Have: 

• Evidence of experience in: 
• Automation 
• Ansible 
• Jenkins 
• Chef 
• Puppet 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology