DevOps Engineer (Western Cape) at Flash Group

Description

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement, gather and analyse metrics from both the IT infrastructure environment and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Work closely with development teams to improve services through deployment pipelines, automated technologies and application maintenance best practises.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and improvements
• Take ownership of medium-sized projects or components within larger projects.
• Lead the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, or containerization initiatives.
• Encounter and solve more complex technical challenges, such as optimising CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications or designing resilient and scalable infrastructure architectures.
• Gain experience in scaling infrastructure and applications to accommodate increasing workloads and user demands.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 5 years of experience in the system operations environment
• 5 years experience in a systems operations experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Continuous Testing
• Log management and ELK Stack. (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana)
• AC and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Scripting (windows PowerShell, Linux shell)
• Container technology and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Build tools (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure Devops)

COMPETENCIES / ATTRIBUTES:

• Excellent team working and communication skills
• Knowledge of programming languages
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Good attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.