Senior DevOps Engineer at HR Studio (Pty) Ltd

We’re looking for…

• An individual who has a technical mind and has a passion for delivering solutions in the ever-changing world of technology. The Senior DevOps Engineer will help to guide and mentor team members in their day-to-day tasks.

Who are you?

• You have expert analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
• You are a creative thinking and motivated self-starter with an ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and technologies
• You are comfortable leading projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
• You have a strong ability to work within aggressive and dynamic timelines
• You are an excellent team player and positive contributor to the culture of the business
• You have demonstrated an in-depth understanding of the cloud native space
• You are familiar with the gitops paradigm
• You have a strong understanding of cm and the ci/cd methodology
• You are familiar with writing complex bash scripts
• You have killed experience working in a linux environment
• You experience writing terraform modules for openstack infrastructure
• You have excellent communication skills, accustomed to share knowledge internally or to other areas
• You have experience mentoring and guiding other people or team members
• You are familiar with SRE paradigm, blameless and RCA

What’s the role?

You will be responsible for:

• Guide the DevOps Team through the definition and execution of distributed solutions on top of Kubernetes to achieve our goal of 99.9% availability for our clients
• Design and work on the implementation of our custom, cloud native, PaaS solution with the goal of providing the best user experience to the Development and QA teams
• Use GitOps best practices to achieve continuous deployment on a global scale
• Contribute to the architecture of our automated build and deployment systems
• Maintain detailed, up-to-date documentation of internal system assets
• Stay abreast of changes to current technology and how it could improve processes at the Company
• Co-ordinate with cross-functional experts throughout the company to validate and develop new insights
• Work closely with external providers to troubleshoot system issues
• Participate in On-call rotation for publishing platform

Boxes to tick…

• Matric
• Tertiary Qualification - University degree or diploma in related field
• 5+ years previous DevOps experience
• Designed and implemented complex CI/CD solutions on Kubernetes in production
• Experience with AWS, including CF, ELB, S3, EC2 and more
• 3 years of experience working with containers in production and Git
• 2 years of experience working with Kubernetes in production
• 2 years of experience writing CM/CI/CD tools in Python or Go
• 2 years of experience administrating Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana stack, Elastic, Loki, New relic, OpenTelemetry
• 1 year of experience working with Helm and Rancher in production