DevOps Engineer - Checkers Sixty60 at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives    

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services.
• Manage our underlying infrastructure using modern observability tools to ensure application health.
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure to support our applications.
• Setup CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products.
• Engage in and enhance the entire software development lifecycle, from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Implement best practices for Kubernetes, Istio, Golang, and AWS to optimize system performance and reliability.
• Execute Argo canary deployments to ensure seamless feature rollouts and updates.
• Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortem.
• Provide end-user support to our engineering team for product-related inquiries.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation as needed.
• Focus on identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and implementing performance improvement techniques.

Qualifications    

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in site reliability or DevOps.
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems.

Experience    

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or system administration.
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Computing AWS preferred
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) products for automated server management.
• Experience with container and virtualization technologies like Kubernetes.
• Experience with databases and data modeling.

Knowledge and Skills    

• Knowledge of build systems and package management tools.
• Experience with container and virtualization technologies like Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with source code and version control tools such as Git or Subversion.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking.
• Proficiency with workflow and issue management tools such as JIRA.
• Ability to work with mission-critical systems and respond with appropriate urgency.
• Effective communication skills for both formal and informal interactions.