Senior DevOps Engineer at PayFast

What you'll be doing

• Scaling and automation of a Distributed On-prem and Cloud environment
• Maintain our configuration and build management systems
• Develop Tooling of repetitive tasks
• Develop and maintain new and existing testing and release pipelines
• Develop and maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures
• Implementation of Kubernetes and orchestration platforms
• Database maintenance and implementations
• Work closely with technical team members
• Must be able to troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively
• Research and evaluation of new technologies for our environment
• Security and incident response
• Patch management

What you’ll need

• Certification (Bachelors / RHCE / ISO 27001) is a plus but not required
• High level of proficiency in Linux based OS
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP) is an advantage
• Containers (Docker + Kubernetes)
• Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab Ci)
• Proficiency in a scripting language and application language: Bash, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Java
• Proven IaC experience in one of: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven Configuration As Code in one of: SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet
• Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, FPM, Node)
• Load Balancers (Haproxy, Proxysql, Nginx)
• Knowledge of Database technologies: Mysql/Maria/Percona/Galera/proxysql
• NoSql DBs,pub/sub and Key/Value stores: Redis/mongo
• Replication technologies (Galera, multisource, CRDT)
• Experience in Networking: OSI, vlan, ospf, vrrp
• Knowledge and experience with Hypervisors and storage networks
• Distributed Storage (Glusterfs/Ceph)
• Queues (AMQP)