Senior Cloud Engineer (CPT) at BETSoftware

Job Description

We want you:

• Are you ready to elevate your career as a Senior Cloud Engineer in Cape Town? Join our team and take charge of implementing and monitoring cloud-native business applications in a hybrid cloud environment. As a leader in platform security, you'll oversee vulnerability scans, assessments, and patching, ensuring top-notch information security. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technology and thrive in a dynamic environment, apply now to be part of our innovative team.

You bring:

• Degree in Computer Science, business or a closely related area (BS in CS or EE, or equivalent) or relevant experience.
• Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.
• Minimum 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems including:Container technologies: Docker, Podman, Crio, Containerd
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Openshift
• Storage technologies block, object etc
• Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.)
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (advantageous)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (advantageous)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) (advantageous)
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) (advantageous)

Troubleshooting experience:

• Programming fundamentals in any language.
• Understanding Linux troubleshooting and, permission SELinux

Customer support experience:

• Customer needs are top priority
• Communicate clearly and set the right expectations.

What you’ll do:

Technical Output

• Work tightly with our customers, to understand, capture, and deliver against their requirements.
• Design and build distributed systems.
• Ability to work with the Operator Framework.
• Having an interest in diving into OpenShift and ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation).
• Work with your fellow engineers and the community to serve our customers.
• Support the requests of the Production and Development Teams to solve any problems related to the container platforms.
• Develop and oversee the backup, replication and disaster recovery strategies.
• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.
• Ensure systems adhere to NIST and Departmental standards.
• Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.
• Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.
• Install, configure and maintain OpenShift environment.
• Maintain/monitor (i.e. Prometheus) the health of the systems through both automated and manual processes.
• Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc).
• Cloud computing in general (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc).
• Understand OS and Application-level issues and advise on next steps.
• Ability to communicate clearly and set the right expectations with all stakeholders.
• Applicable understanding of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices.