Senior Cloud Engineer (JHB) at BET Software

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.
• Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).
• 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.
• 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).

What You’ll Do:

• 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.