Senior DevOps Engineer - Cape Town at Yuppiechef

What does the job entail?

• Architecting and designing infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly-available infrastructure solutions. This includes: AWS; virtualization; containers (Docker): and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• CI/CD Pipeline management: Lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated software deployments. This includes: integration testing; monitoring; and security practices into the pipeline\
• Automation and configuration management: Create and manage automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, configuration, and provisioning processes — leveraging tools like Terraform and Ansible to define and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling version control and reproducibility
• Monitoring and performance optimisation: Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, system failures, and security vulnerabilities. And analyse metrics to optimise infrastructure and application performance.\
• Security and compliance: Ensure the security and compliance of the infrastructure, applications, and data by implementing best practices for security hardening, access controls, and regular audits
• Troubleshooting and incident response: Quickly diagnose and resolve issues related to deployments, infrastructure, and performance. And contribute to incident response and disaster recovery plans
• Collaboration with the Development Team: Work closely with the Development Team to understand application requirements, optimise development workflows, and provide guidance on best practices for deploying and maintaining application

What are the requirements?

• You’ll need to have had 8+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineer
• With at least 2 years leading and managing others
• A world-class CV that demonstrates the level of skill and experience required for this role

You’ll need to show these specific skills:

• Working as a Linux system administrator
• Setting up and tuning services such as apache and nginx for high throughput
• Working with Containers and Kubernetes
• Package Updates / Keeping systems up to date
• Monitoring system performance
• Knowledge in Bash Scripting
• AWS CodeDeploy/CodeBuildr or similar CI/CD pipelines
• Understand and develop configuration management tooling, such as Ansible and Terraform for IaC
• Knowledge of working with IaaS solutions (AWS preferred) and be able to translate on-premise knowledge to cloud based solutions
• An LPIC / RHCSA / or similar Linux qualification would be beneficial
• A tertiary qualification in Computer Sciences or similar would be beneficial