Senior Cloud Engineer at Santam Insurance

Responsibilities

Improve the quality of our cloud infrastructure.

• You will own the key performance indicators of the cloud infrastructure and drive their visibility and use to continuously improve our architecture and processes.
• This can mean: paying down technical debt, rearchitecting old design decisions, and improving performance and resilience.

Extend the features of our infrastructure.

• You will design and build new capabilities of the infrastructure that empower our Engineering teams.
• You will lead the architecture design and decision-making for your area of infrastructure.

Successfully operate the infrastructure.

• You will ensure the core infrastructure is always available and performant.
• You will ensure: the reliable continuous operation of the infrastructure; that monitoring is visible and attended to; that errors are logged and acted on; that the cost of the infrastructure is accurately reported, tracked and optimised.
• You will also be expected to share on-call rotation duties with the rest of the team.

Improve our team.

• You will share your experience and knowledge.
• You will improve our documentation, and document your design decisions and rationale.
• You will mentor your fellow engineers.

Our ideal candidate

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience (e.g. DevOps Engineer).
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience with serverless architectures. Large portions of our platform are built using serverless technologies, so experience here will help you get up to speed sooner.
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services as we utilise AWS  for all our infrastructure and service needs.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD solutions. Enabling all of our Engineering teams to quickly and reliably test and deploy their changes is a key objective for us, so experience in building, improving and maintaining CI/CD pipelines is needed.
• Experience in creating and running containerised applications (e.g. with Docker) and Linux.
• Experience in Insurance or Financial Services is advantageous.
• Experience in a start-up environment is advantageous.