DevOps Engineer (Western Cape) at Flash Group

Description

Responsibilities

• Implement, gather and analyze 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 practices.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and improvements, and 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 optimizing 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 

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)

Attributes:

• Excellent teamworking 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