DevOps / SRE Engineer - Johannesburg at Progressive Edge

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer
• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java/ JavaScript/ Golang/ Python
• An understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• Familiar with build tools including Maven, npm, Go build, Make, Scripting
• Public cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP) certification preferable
• Local Infrastructure experience (Virtualisation, *UI systems)
• Container experience
• CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues
• Out of the box thinking to solve infrastructure and operational problems

Expertise:

• Configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices
• Domain-specific languages (Chef, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK)
• Continuous integration tooling (Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD, Travis, CircleCI)
• Continuous delivery tools and patterns (GitOps, Blue/Green, Progressive Delivery)
• Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (NewRelic, Graphite, ELK, EFK, Nagios, Ganglia, Grafana, Prometheus etc.)
• Git and various branching models
• ChatOps